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Tsvangirai, now the country's Prime Minister, went on a three-week tour to the U.S. and Europe last month, making every effort to push the idea that there is unity of purpose within the government, and asking the West to lift targeted sanctions on Mugabe and his cronies, as well as to provide...
...said in your story, Pyongyang's only consistency has been its unpredictability. So America should attack it with a larger level of unpredictability. Lift all sanctions. Let the giant corporate world in. The only life that the larger population of North Korea knows is the life of not having much. Give them a life of choices - export the good life into North Korea. Show them what life could be like with someone else in the capital. Do this for a year or so, then push your agendas. And if Pyongyang again starts to drag its feet, take it all away...
...tons of CO2, which 1.13 billion people - less than 15% of the global population in 2030 - would exceed. Emissions-reduction efforts would focus on the well-off people above the cap, whatever country they live in. That lets the global poor continue to use cheap fossil fuels to help lift themselves out of poverty - countering the argument that cutting carbon emissions will disproportionately hurt the poor. "The result is you decouple poverty reduction from averting global climate change," says Chakravarty...
...reserve currency would be both time-consuming and complicated. And since China holds so many dollars, selling even a small amount of its reserves would dent the value of those that remained. But despite the glitches, argument over the need for a new international reserve does little to lift sentiment in the dollar's favor. Its replacement might be an "implausible suggestion," analysts at HSBC wrote in a May note to clients, but "its pre-eminent position as the reserves currency of the world does not mean that [the dollar] will maintain its value." Like Derrick, HSBC is counting...
...Hong Kong Disneyland needs to expand to stand up to plans for a much larger Shanghai Disneyland in the next few years. Construction has not begun, but the Shanghai municipal government and Disney Co. signed off on a project proposal earlier this year. The new plan could also lift spirits at a time when Hong Kong's tourism has taken a hit on swine flu concerns. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the number of new visitors to the city in May dropped a steep 13.4% year on year. For the first five months of the year, however...