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...promises he made [July 13]. He has failed to deliver results to indigenous Australians and he has delivered no substantial results to reduce carbon emissions. I understand the realpolitik of managing the Australia-U.S.-China relationship, but Rudd is the master of self-promotion: great on words but short on action. I would have called him Mr. Posturing, not Mr. World. Martin Gordon, Canberra...
...trying to be all things to all people in the end makes you nothing to everyone. Please put on the cover of TIME whichever future Australian PM is able to truly restore our international credibility and the disciplined economic example we as a country were only a few short years ago. Marcus Blackie, Perth, Australia...
...smashed through the walls of his house, dragged him out, broke both his legs with iron bars and left him for dead in a ditch. "Tsvangirai," he says, "can say what he wants, but it's just talk. The people who beat me still walk freely around here." A short drive away, in Chiveso, Gabriel Mangurenje, 39, says he has been beaten out of his home by ZANU mobs five times since 2000 and has lost two brothers, both MDC activists, to the violence. "Of course we want to see a peaceful approach," he says, "but we also want...
...smart idea with a silly acronym. WWOOF, short for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, connects cash-strapped travelers with farms in need of extra hands. The lodging-for-labor combo means volunteers pay only for transportation, plus a small fee for access to host-farm listings in one of the 92 countries through wwoof.org Rita Garand, a stay-at-home mom in Montreal, loved her stint on a lavender farm in Italy this May, where her family spent five hours a day weeding. But would-be WWOOFers should ask about specifics, advises Mark Phillips, a Boston sales associate...
...mechanized baseball duo of a batter and pitcher that can throw 90% of its pitches in the strike zone. And while the majority of Japanese robotic inventions - from the dazzling to the horrifying -have largely been unable to break into the mass market, Japanese scientists aren't likely to short-circuit their robotic ambitions anytime soon: Robotic technology plays a larger role in Japan than anywhere else in the world. (See the top 10 Japanese robots...