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...Nigeria, double the smoking rate of Nigerian men, and many pick up the habit by age 11. That's a demographic powder keg, one that means big trouble if you're a health expert and big promise if you're a tobacco executive. Both sides agree on one thing, though: across all of Africa, cigarettes are set for boom times. (See pictures of vintage pro-smoking propaganda...
...interview, he said: "If a ruling party thinks it's likely to lose, and then uses its position as a ruling party to manipulate the outcome of the election so that it can extend its term in power, [it is] not the way to go ? this power-sharing thing is a bad precedent for the continent." Especially when it means more of the same...
...Harvard identification and a drivers license to prove he lived in the home. They said the officer refused to identify himself and lured Gates out of the home to arrest him.Gates told CNN Wednesday evening that even though the incident had upset him greatly, he would "do the same thing exactly again."—Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...message was clear: There is no such thing as tourism in this corner of Africa. Ultimately, however, my run-in with the authorities is just another example of the shortsighted mismanagement of Equatorial Guinea. While the government lavishes in oil wealth, the citizenry suffer under the weight of unbearable poverty. Tourism could be an avenue for Guineans outside of the government sector to begin taking control of their own economic potential. The country itself is a vibrant and beautiful place, with landscapes ranging from volcanic mountains to elephant forests to grassy plains and sleepy seaside villages. With the right resources...
...given Israel's overpowering ability to strike back. Most observers think that the Iranians would hold their weapon as a deterrent - even Rafsanjani, in his "Islamic bomb" speech, posited that the weapon would create a regional "stalemate." To be sure, an Iranian bomb would not be a good thing. It might launch a Middle Eastern arms race among Iran's Sunni rivals in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. But it would not be cataclysmic, either - unless Obama decided to pre-empt it militarily. In any case, the question is, Does the President really want to paint himself into this corner? Does...