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...junior coalition partner, though, is the Foreign Ministry, and Westerwelle has been busily boning up on international affairs. "German foreign policy has to be value-based but also directed by our interests," he says. "Naturally, you always have to take economic interests into account - we want to sell German and European products in other countries. But you always have to maintain your values...
...Google gets to read my e-mail and many of my work documents. It knows more about me than my blessed wife does. And I'm fine with that, since--so far, anyway--it uses the data benignly, mainly to try to sell me stuff. (Good luck with that.) I am happy to be one of the millions of batteries that power Google. The more it feeds on us, the more it gives us, creating a bountiful world where manna rains from the cloud computers...
...Army's new mental-toughness initiative, set to kick off in October, is to be successful, it needs buy-in from the people it plans to train. It can be a tough sell. At Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in N.C., Adam Credle, who teaches military, law enforcement and Coast Guard personnel how to drive boats equipped with machine guns really fast, has encouraged his students to try out the meditative techniques. So far, he's been rebuffed, though he continues to try to persuade them to give the discipline's central exercise a chance. The mental focusing technique...
...American Barbecue, a special menu of Southern food. This is the first time Greenhouse changed its menu according to the season, and no one at the café, not even the manager Brad Hartman, could tell FlyBy why. Is it some kind of marketing ploy? Does Indian food not sell well during the summer or something? Oh well, we were just curious. And craving curry...
Also contributing to the shortage of derby-worthy cars: scrap-metal prices have doubled in the past two years, leading more owners to sell their cars to the junkyard instead of to a local kid with demo-derby dreams. (Watch TIME's video "Demolition Derby: Crash for Clunkers...