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The price they have been paying has been high enough. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians, primarily from the Acholi ethnic group, have died as a result of the brutal rebellion waged by the LRA in the north of this small east African nation; 1.7 million were uprooted to camps...
The root of Zou's troubles, like so many things in China today, can be traced back to the country's wholesale adoption of capitalism. Market forces were unleashed on what was once a sports system that cared for its athletes from cradle to grave, leaving Zou and tens of...
Ten years ago a financial typhoon known as the Asian Crisis smashed into Bangkok. Over the next 15 months it swept through Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Seoul. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of...
[This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] The designers at NASA are preparing to fly what may be the feeblest spacecraft they've ever built--and they couldn't be prouder of it. Never mind the decades of unmanned probes that have gone roaring into...
Even beyond this role arranging what must have been lucrative deals for China's "principal players," there's a deeper reason Kissinger enjoys such support from the leadership: he seems to agree with them on the paramount importance of stability. As the author Robert D. Kaplan has suggested, for Kissinger...