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...came to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunar to report a story on what it would take to win this war. For the past three years I have watched U.S. and coalition military tactics evolve from a purely kinetic approach to a much more subtle operation informed by Gen. David Petraeus's philosophy of counter-insurgency. In short, it is no longer about dominating the enemy but rather about enabling Afghans to stand up for themselves. If we can provide security while strengthening local governance, the theory goes, Afghans will choose to throw off the insurgent...
...villagers claimed to know nothing about the shooting coming from Loi Kolay earlier that day. They hadn't seen any strangers in town, they said, and promised to report any suspicious activities. We talked about the village's needs and fielded complaints about the goats that had been killed by mortar fire a few days before. Sergeant First Class Lucas J. Young, who was leading the mission, asked one man what he could do to help the village. "Nothing," he responded. "We don't want anything, just peace." Previous missions had elicited the same response. To Lucas...
Indeed, Malta calls that earlier report "disrespectful" and prefers to emphasize that Brazilians are relatively slim compared with their counterparts in the West. "I think Brazilians are still worried about their bodies. When we compare ourselves to the rest of the world, we are still much thinner," she tells TIME. "And remember, this is not just Brazilians that are getting fatter - this is a worldwide phenomenon...
...poor Chinese consumers have the purchasing power to rescue China's economy, let alone the rest of the world. They're too busy saving for a rainy day. Beijing realizes that among consumers "household savings are high (and their consumption low) because of structural factors" says Roubini in his report, citing such factors as the lack of adequate health care and unemployment benefits, poor rural infrastructure and public services, lack of a proper social security system, and underdeveloped credit markets for mortgage and consumer finance. These all conspire to place an almost insurmountable drag on the government's efforts...
...Columbia economic professor Nouriel Roubini pointed out in a recent report written for private clients, car sales in China have been "artificially boosted on a temporary basis by incentives" and so are unlikely to sustain their rise. Similarly, a spike in purchases of white goods in China's countryside was largely caused by discount vouchers supplied to consumers by Beijing, Roubini notes...