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...with plugging the Fulda Gap. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was there this year, and he knew there was no chance he could avoid the single most important issue that leaders in the here and now confront: not Internet censorship in China, not U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. No, the question of the day is whether the Islamic Republic of Iran will be permitted to develop nuclear weapons while the rest of the world stands around and chats about it. Here's what Yang told the group in Munich: "The parties concerned should, with the overall and long-term interests...
...world's nuclear standoff with Iran is ratcheting ever upward. On Feb. 8, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (no diplomat he) matter-of-factly announced that Iran would soon begin enriching uranium for use in a "medical reactor." That means China will have to answer the central question that confronts it, which was embedded within Yang's diplo-speak: What actually is China's long-term interest in Iran? (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...NCLB) - the George W. Bush - era education law that forces every school to report whether it makes "adequate yearly progress" toward nationwide math- and reading-proficiency standards - we can now point to exactly which schools are the lowest performing and the least improving. With that information in hand, the question becomes, Well, what do we do about it? (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...unanswered question is how long Mastery and other new outfits can maintain such high levels of improvement. It's also still unknown whether individual turnaround successes can be replicated elsewhere, or, to borrow another corporate catchphrase, whether such enterprises can be scaled...
When I was in Haiti covering the aftermath of the Jan. 12 monster earthquake, friends from around the world e-mailed or called to ask what it was like. Was the damage as extensive as it seemed on TV? How were the survivors coping? The question I was asked most of all: What are they doing for food? Many friends didn't believe my answer: "They're eating cookies...