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...last month, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Japan's wartime army had forced tens of thousands of Asian women into sexual slavery, igniting an international furor, Beijing stayed conspicuously quiet. China's diplomatic silence was the latest sign of an unexpected thaw in the two nations' often icy relationship...
...rapidly increasing military spending, which rose nearly 18% to reach $45 billion officially this year-even as Japan's own defense budget, for all of Abe's posturing, has remained virtually flat. The point is that while both nations want what one Tokyo official calls a "future-oriented relationship," the future will likely find them on opposite strategic sides. That doesn't mean they can't be good neighbors-good fences and all that-but we can expect friction...
...Kurds' tenuous relationship with Arab Iraq is even more combustible some 47 miles south, in Kirkuk. The city is less than a two-hour drive from Arbil, but the road trip into the other Iraq is a spooky one. To the left, there's a chain of forts left over from the Iran-Iraq war, crumbling masonry monsters that look as if they were built to World War I specifications. The Hamreen Mountains to the right are practically deserted save for a series of sentry posts silhouetted along the ridge line. And waiting straight ahead at the gates of Kirkuk...
...India and the Asian tigers are places that have educated populations, and that has been the basis for their economic explosions," says Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard who studies the relationship between education and national prosperity. India and China may have illiteracy rates that are higher than Brazil's, but they also have much larger populations of educated, skilled workers. "Brazil's poor economic growth over the past few years is associated in part with the low level of education," Glaeser says...
...Sallie Mae spokesman told TIME that although his company had been approached by several institutions in recent years about starting revenue-sharing deals, it declined to engage in this activity. "No schools are being asked to return money as a result of their relationship with Sallie Mae," the company said in a statement released Wednesday. However, Sallie Mae and Citibank have agreed to contribute $2 million apiece to a new fund administered by Cuomo's office to educate college-bound students about their loan options...