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...China.) And its foreign aid has been unconditional. (In contrast to the "Imperialists," China wants a relationship of equality with other developing countries.) But lately, China has displayed a new willingness to twist arms in Sudan, and its officials have been talking in different terms about the crisis there. Listen, for example, to Liu Guijin, China's Special Envoy on Darfur, speaking in June at a conference on Africa: "China supports African countries in their efforts to improve democracy and the rule of law, and to practice good governance ... Closer cooperation between China and Africa is helpful to African countries...
Explaining to the youngest children why a parent is leaving home is often a difficult task. That's why the military paired up with Elmo and friends for a Sesame Street DVD called "Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families Cope with Military Deployment." More than 250,000 copies have been distributed to families since it was released in August 2006, and a follow-up study conducted by the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University reports that the video helped kids interact more constructively with their families, and helped parents feel less depressed about their spouse's deployment...
...that boys have lost the chance to play and to explore," Anderson told me. Our society takes a dim view of idle time and casts a skeptical eye on free play--play driven by a boy's curiosity rather than the league schedule or the folks at Nintendo. But listen to Anderson as she lists the virtues of letting boys run themselves occasionally...
...more from Bon Jovi read the extra questions. Listen to this interview on Time.com's 10 Questions podcast. Find more interviews at time.com/10questions.
...head nurse reads a printed message from the hospital administration to all the other nurses and aides. They're not her words nor her thoughts, but simply messages from above that are hers to enforce. During the readings, I'm often making rounds or sitting there writing in charts, listening. But I can never listen to line-up for long. The bureaucratic illogic of the messages I can ignore; the management's false concern and manipulative guile can be fun to trace out - like the plot in a bad TV show. But what's so repulsive about line...