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That's the reason the Obama Administration is considering doubling the size of Afghanistan's military and national police forces, to roughly 400,000. That's more than triple what U.S. officials had estimated would be needed to defend the country shortly after the U.S. invaded in late 2001. But...
The Confidence Game As director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag is a card-carrying numbers guy. But lately Orszag has been reading up on that aspect of the economy ungoverned by numbers: the realm of groundswell and mojo - our "animal spirits," in the vivid words of...
It's a sweet, symbiotic relationship: the annual pilgrimage keeps California's $2.2 billion almond industry ticking and is a huge moneymaker for more than half the country's commercial beekeepers. But this year, some worry that relationship is starting to sour. Driven by surging global demand, California's almond...
While the proliferation of bicycles in Paris has created a new form of pushy and irresponsible behavior rivaling that of the city's motorists, it may not, in fact, be true that the worst two-wheeled offenders are usually Vélib' renters - despite the statistics that suggest as much...
Lieberman, leader and founder of Israel's surging right-wing Yisreal Beitenu party, will be the man everyone wants to talk to in the wake of Tuesday's election for Israel's 120-seat Knesset parliament. Israelis demanding security and stability helped his party earn 15 seats and finish a...