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...this climate, resolving Kashmir may seem to have little chance, yet diplomacy has picked up a bit of pace. Over the past few months, there have been signs of a thaw and hints that the two countries, prodded by Washington, would reopen a dialogue that has been stalled since the Mumbai terror attacks last year. On June 16, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari shook hands at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Russia, where Zardari acknowledged that Pakistan's greatest threat was the Taliban - a remarkable admission for a country that has long considered...
...With so much yield for so few bucks, it might seem surprising that Indian authorities hadn't dug Thakare a pond long before now. But small farmers like Thakare have been neglected for much of the past three decades - and not only in India. Throughout the developing world, agriculture was the also-ran of the global economy. Governments equated economic progress with steel mills and shoe factories. While urban centers thrived and city dwellers got rich, hundreds of millions of farmers remained mired in poverty. Agriculture in many developing nations stagnated...
Geisinger's brand of care can take some getting used to - at least for the doctors. Come to work for Geisinger and the first thing you notice is that your days as a medical free agent are over. You are now an employee, an idea that may seem like a very bad thing - until you get used to it and realize that it can be a very good thing. (See pictures of angry health-care debates...
...Georgia to join. Saakashvili told me that from the outset, any talk he had with then Russian President Vladimir Putin on the breakaway territories was met with warnings about his relationship to the West: "The first lecture [Putin] ever gave me in Moscow was 'All these Eastern European leaders seem to be so subservient to the U.S.' It was very disgusting to Putin. He warned me, 'Don't even try that...
...with the kites for a moment, gathered around the nearby dog cages of the Mine Dog Center, a local landmine clearing NGO, and a more disturbing symbol of day-to-day life in the Afghan capital than kites on the wind. This was strange because Afghan children do not seem generally to like dogs, fearing them, perhaps, as much as the landmines...