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...conference in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou with investment guru Jim Rogers and Kirby Daley, an outspoken Hong Kong - based financial strategist. Though both Americans, the two appeared to be engaged in a contest to decide who could bash their home country the hardest. Rogers called China "the next great country of the world," while comparing a debt-burdened America to the failed British Empire. Daley lambasted American economic policy as ill conceived and out of touch. Rogers warned his listeners against a declining U.S. dollar; Daley said the U.S. consumer, who has been the world's most important...
...There is no doubt that China is the world's next superpower, but we sometimes forget that this is a nation that can't make safe milk, and where activists vanish from their homes. Look at how China exerts its new global influence - by backing some of the world's most odious regimes, in North Korea, Sudan and Burma. Most pundits mistakenly praise the Chinese system as blindly as they criticize the American one. Many economists ignore China's immense problems that could undermine Chinese growth in the future...
...next time you order another late night burger at the grill, think of all the people you are affecting. And next time you meet a few potential friends, hike with them to Pfoho to seek the advice of House Master Christakis...
...remember," the President said. I'm sure he didn't write those words, but in that one sentence, he accurately and movingly defined the painful confusion that begins most gay lives. He went on: "Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends, his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender." The audience of some 2,000 - mostly major gay donors and activists, many of whom have been disappointed with Obama's slow...
...Yellow River of Bijapur," after China's Hwang Ho. While the Chinese river is infamous for its sudden changes in course, the Indian version, whose water many consider no longer fit for human consumption, is gaining notoriety for its unpredictable nature - flash floods one day, barely a trickle the next. "We need to find a way of storing the excess water and using it through the rest of the year," says A.K. Bajaj, Chairman of India's Central Water Commission. (Read "India's Floods: a Manmade Disaster...