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...last 40 days, I have been studying Russian at Middlebury College. It is a thoughtful program that works classes, films, and tea parties into a digestible nine weeks. One quirk is that upon arriving, you are required to sign a pledge promising only to communicate and acquire stimuli in Russian. This explains why I got busted two weeks ago. I was caught listening to a Lutheran mass—which was written in another irresponsible language, German...
...only way for the U.S. and the rest of the world to come to grips with the U.S.'s glaring foreign-trade and current-account imbalances. China's dollar peg was a major impediment to the rebalancing of a global economy, which has become dangerously dependent for growth upon the unsustainable excesses of U.S. consumption...
...Asia is that it saves too much and spends too little, while the U.S. spends too much and saves too little?leading to huge U.S. deficits that some economists fear could destabilize the world economy. If Asians begin to spend more, export-led economies everywhere will be less dependent upon U.S. spending for growth, reducing the risk of a recession should American consumers falter. The 2.1% rise in the yuan "is a baby step, but it is the start of a very important process," says Frank Gong, chief China economist for JPMorgan. Over the long term, he adds, China...
...moved more slowly than glaciers, imperceptible to those who participated in it. As the historical philosopher Ronald Wright observed, for 99.5% of mankind's existence "the human world that individuals entered at birth was the same as the one they left at death." Nothing ever changed, for generation upon generation...
...outer islands educating people about ways to head off crime. "In the past we used informers to get information. Now we rely on these bodies." As the local explosives expert, Tiazy is also responsible for dealing with the torpedoes and other old ordnance that islanders still occasionally stumble upon 60 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific. But today the police have come to Ughele to speak with Dick Dani. In his early 20s and unemployed, Dani has become the village nuisance. He's accused of assaulting people, using abusive language and throwing rocks at houses...