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...board, from beef to bullion. For the unconvinced, he pulls out a chart showing the average daily per capita consumption of oil in the U.S. at 0.677 bbl., vs. India's infinitely smaller consumption (0.021 bbl.) and China's (0.049 bbl.). "Even if the Chinese and Indians just start consuming as much electricity as Koreans now do, the price of oil will take off," he says. (See the best business deals...
...their part, skin-cancer experts recommend that people eliminate the risk of overexposure from the start, by covering up in the sun with long sleeves and pants or at the very least wearing sunscreen. That is especially true on summer vacations, when people who have been indoors most of the year suddenly hit the beach for a week. Melanoma is associated with intermittent exposure to intense sun, particularly before the age of 18, so youngsters need to be extra careful about sun protection, says Robert Dellavalle, chief of dermatology at the VA Medical Center in Denver...
...South Asia should be. What they try to tell us is something about what life is like for the brave men who carry out that policy, one day at a time. If it's true that sometimes we've let ourselves lose sight of Afghanistan, then as a start, let's look here...
...think President Obama has started extremely well. There's lots of goodwill and support for him around the world. He has enormous challenges both [in the U.S.] and abroad. I think we all need to help him succeed, and we should start by reducing expectations. High expectations can cause problems for politicians...
...some of the best professional advice I've ever received: Write what you see, because "what history needs more of is first-person testimony." "Never feel guilty about reading; it's what you do to do what you do." "Never join a pile-on, but it's O.K. to start one." And this: When I told him his column was great, he said, "It's not a column, it's a pillar...