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...vitamins. Twelve of some of the country's largest food players - including Kellogg, General Mills and Quaker's parent company, PepsiCo - have promised to market only "better for you" foods to kids under 12. Of course, companies decide what counts as "better for you," ensuring that their products meet the standards. (Read "Watching TV: Even Worse for Kids Than You Think...
...course, the geopolitical game has changed since 1962. China is now intimately connected to the U.S. economy and the holder of $797 billion in Treasury securities. President Barack Obama has tried to set a conciliatory tone with the leaders in Beijing, agreeing not to meet the Dalai Lama, whom they detest, before an expected visit to China next month. At the same time, the U.S. is forging much closer military ties to India. Thanks to a monitoring agreement reached this year, U.S. defense contractors can sell technology freely to India. "India is probably the most important country internationally...
Both sides will probably try to cool things down at the coming summit of Southeast Asian nations in Bangkok. Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao are expected to meet on the margins of the meeting, although one conversation is unlikely to sort out their complicated history. Both countries are still absorbed in a game played in miniature: recently, for example, a Kashmiri student was given a Chinese visa that was stapled rather than pasted into his passport, an implicit questioning of Kashmir's status as a state of India. Indian authorities, Guruswamy says, then quietly suggested they might...
...that prelude to a run for the presidency? No, it has nothing to do with that, despite people making that connection. It's really about promoting the book. It's simply a way to get into as many bookstores as possible and meet as many readers as possible. Whether I run or not is a decision for me that is a long way away. A lot of people make that assumption that everything I'm doing is moving toward that. The truth is, I'm having a great time doing what I'm doing on [ABC] Radio five days...
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