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...immensely courageous—is unquestionable. However, these views did not translate into policies as prime minister. Her record as an anti-terrorist crusader is murky, at best. While Bhutto was prime minister, the Pakistani intelligence services helped install the Taliban in Afghanistan. There was also a huge spike in Pakistan’s monetary and strategic support for jehadis in Kashmir during her tenure. While Bhutto’s direct responsibility for both these actions is debatable, they were nonetheless incongruous with the simplistic anti-terrorism crusader image that she later sought to cultivate...
...China the most it would have to be inflation, which hits citizens where it hurts most - in the wallet. The country's consumer price index hit an 11-year high of 6.5% in October due largely to rising food and fuel costs. The storms will almost certainly cause another spike. Frigid temperatures across 14 provinces in China are destroying vegetable crops and will "push up food prices further in January and February," says Jun Ma, chief China economist at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. The consequences could be serious, says Simpfendorfer of the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Even if [inflation...
Nearly 4.3 million children were born in 2006, the largest number in the U.S. in any year since the post-World War II baby boom some 50 years ago. The recent spike, dubbed a baby boomlet, has been attributed to a number of circumstances, including the influx of Hispanic immigrants, who have higher fertility rates than whites or African Americans, and a decline in the use of contraception. Also, 35 years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the abortion rate has dropped; from 1990 to 2005, abortions fell...
...That's quite a turnaround from the doomsday predictions made in the early '90s. It was less than two decades ago that the country's crime wizards were warning of a unprecedented, bloody spike as a super-predator generation - kids armed with equally menacing weapons and attitudes - inflamed gang and drug wars; murders hit over 2,000 in New York and nearly 1,000 in Chicago during the early 1990s. Many theories for the decline over the past decade and more have been floated; from the Freakonomics suggestion that legalizing abortion effectively wiped out a population of would-be criminals...
...course, if the economy does play such a key role we could be in for a spike, with unemployment already on the rise - 5% in December - and fears of a recession mounting. Some observers say its impact is already visible in some smaller cities and rural parts of the country, where violent crime has been on the uptick in recent years. Others say a more simple formula is behind it. "What goes up comes down," said James Alan Fox, a leading criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "But in big cities, there was more room to drop, and in small...