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...world's least developed nations, the Ramu mine has emerged as an acute example of resentment against China Inc. In 2004 P.N.G. Prime Minister Michael Somare returned home from Beijing, triumphant at having snared the country's largest foreign-investment project to date. The euphoria was short-lived. Landowners brandished slingshots and announced they wouldn't sign off on their tribal territory being used for mineral extraction, no matter what document was signed in China's Great Hall of the People. Environmentalists cried foul over plans to deposit mine waste in the sparkling Basamuk Bay, while local workers protested conditions...
...auction's failure was due in part to the government's inflexibility. Baghdad is under pressure by Iraq's feisty oil unions and politicians, who have accused leaders of aiming to sell the country's riches on the cheap to gain a little short-term relief for the economy. Oil executives argued they should be paid as much as $3.99 a barrel - nearly double the government offer - because of the risks involved. Operating in Iraq means investing billions in an unstable country where foreign oil workers are routinely kidnapped and insurgents have blown hundreds of holes in pipelines. Rochdi Younsi...
...Developed World The excellent "Postcard: North Parsonfield" by Christopher Ketcham was almost worth my year's subscription to TIME on its own [Nov. 16]. This short item shone a bright light on how close some pockets of U.S. society are to parts of the Third World, with their lack of health care and their gun-toting distrust of democratic institutions. In an entirely nonjudgmental way I could not help thinking how at home, with perhaps a few cultural adjustments for the position of women, the Chutes and their neighbors might be among the Pashtun of Afghanistan. Dr. Stephen Hopkins, ECCLES...
...armed wing who rose to the leadership of its ruthless intelligence unit. He plotted bomb attacks and assassinations and ordered the killing of suspected traitors. There was nothing intellectual about such work. In an interview with TIME in early 2007, Zuma summarized his revolutionary ideology in one short sentence: "I was oppressed." Not for Zuma the intellectual contortions that led even Mandela to cast crime as a white, counterrevolutionary plot or Mbeki to see AIDS as a Western drug-company conspiracy. Not for him either the obsession with meeting his former white masters on their terms...
...letter says that the report’s figures and graphs are “seriously misleading” in that they show a steady increase in acquisitions in recent years. But the graphs are distorted by “extra-ordinary” short-term cash infusions and fail to include the decline in funding over previous decades, the letter says...