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...generals, is that the sanctions debate is immaterial. While American and European foreign policy thinkers ponder how to financially strangle an army government that has ruled since 1962, Burma's regional neighbors are embarking on a new Great Game, scrambling to outdo each other for access to this resource-rich land. "Sanctions don't work if most countries ignore them," says Naw La, an exiled environmentalist with the Kachin Development Networking Group in Thailand. "The military is selling our natural heritage without any concern for our people...
...world's rubies by value, 80% of its teak, and is home to one of Asia's biggest oil and natural-gas reserves. The country's jade is the world's finest, and its largely untouched rivers promise plentiful hydropower for its neighbors. "Multinationals are getting rich off Burma, and so is the military regime," says Ka Hsaw Wa, co-founder of EarthRights International, an NGO that sued U.S. energy giant Unocal, which eventually provided out-of-court compensation to villagers who are believed to have toiled as slave labor for the Yadana gas pipeline from southern Burma to Thailand...
...presentation on the similarity between human and monkey decision making paradigms. Laibson cautioned against applying preliminary findings of the developing field—which at present may have primarily microeconomic implications—to the current recession, but maintained that “unambiguously, the current crisis has extraordinarily rich psychological origins.” The event was co-sponsored by the Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior and the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association. Sophie R. Wharton ’11, secretary of the HSMBB and one of the lead organizers of the symposium, said that organizers were pleased...
...seven original houses, Winthrop House has a rich history, sheltering three Kennedy brothers in its heyday. But, as they say, the more things change…the more things change. Winthrop lacks much of its former glamour and desirability. But what it lacks in singles, it makes up for in occasional sewage leaks! Score! (Am I right? Guys? Guys...
...province's Iraqi police, national police and army units, says there are several factors to blame. First of all, he says, the lack of political accord among the province's diverse population as well as tensions with the neighboring region of Kurdistan, which lays claim to Nineveh's oil-rich city of Kirkuk, have fostered an environment of political uncertainty. (See 10 ideas changing the world right...