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...just a generation away from being a nation of producers. The question is: what economic framework will help us reclaim those skills and that potential." Say, for example, the exchange rates change or the price of oil rises (and it has started to creep up, if not at last summer's pace) so that foreign-made goods are no longer cheap to import. We could find ourselves doubly stuck because domestic manufacturing is no longer set up to make all these products. While no community functions in isolation, supporting local trade helps "recreate the diversity of small businesses that...
...decision by the Justice Department is expected by the end of the summer...
...This week's uproar is reminiscent of a similar situation that unfolded last summer after the state government decided to transfer about 100 acres of land to a Hindu consortium. The move was designed to improve amenities for the thousands of Hindus who come to Kashmir each year to worship at a local cave-shrine. More than 60 people were killed in the protests that followed that policy. Incidents like these take both a personal and an economic toll: Hundreds of Indian and foreign tourists were driven out of the Valley this week, and tour operators say that many bookings...
Most of the construction-grade explosives are smuggled in from Pakistan, intelligence officials say. There are, however, some troubling exceptions. One U.S. military officer in Afghanistan explained that, over the summer, coalition convoys transiting through Wardak province were being targeted with unusually powerful bombs. Some of the explosives recovered from weapons caches in the area bore Chinese markings, identical to those being used by contractors working on a new road through a hostile river valley. It was later learned that employees had sold ordnance to local insurgents in exchange for security guarantees...
...afloat along the most at-risk stretches of road now keep 24-hour watch. When bomb teams are caught on roads at odd hours of the night, unmanned aerial drones can be summoned to strike with Hellfire missiles within half an hour. Demartino says that during one week last summer, six IED teams were killed this way, one of which was comprised of Pakistani Taliban. It was a "train the trainer" team that was moving around the region to teach locals how to emplace bombs, he says. Once the team was eliminated, the attack rate dropped more than...