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...washed their clothes in the river - and the place was lit by a single bulb. In every direction just beyond the watermelon patch, office parks and houses and apartment complexes were going up, forming a cordon around the farmland that was drawing inexorably tighter. As it is in vast swathes of China, the new was replacing the old, and it was not doing so slowly. It was doing so in the blink...
...Along with a financial crackdown, an international arms embargo against the generals would have an impact without causing wider pain. Without new weaponry provided at discount rates, the junta would have to spend vastly more of its own money equipping the second largest army in Southeast Asia. This would leave far less to support the military's vast parallel social-welfare system, including separate health care and schools for soldiers, which is vital to ensuring the average grunt's loyalty to the generals rather than to the Burmese people...
...filled by piracy. Industry insiders estimate that as much as 33% of Indian film companies' revenues are lost to piracy each year, with many of the counterfeits going to foreign markets. Now, two major Bollywood studios aim to change that by making films directly available, via download, to the vast overseas market that contributes a fifth of the industry's revenues...
...democratic equality. The caucus structure disenfranchises voters, discouraging ordinary citizens with its substantial time demands, and essentially silencing those who must work during caucus hours. Worst of all, they strip voters of the anonymity that has always been democracy’s best defense against demagoguery and coercion.As vast as the structural problems with caucusing are, however, it still produces a more just and accurate reflection of public sentiment than do the biases of party leaders. Both Democratic and Republican national committees would do well to avoid a repeat of this election’s mistakes and abolish unpledged delegates...
...more resources into disaster assistance, education and health programs, which he sees as a major part of "building strong nations" and "restoring stability in post-conflict situations." At the moment the State Department and its separately-funded fiefdom, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), are contracting out the vast majority of this work. Rice says she wants her diplomats getting their hands dirty in development work, but lawmakers are growing impatient at what they see is a lack of will to fund the major overhaul and hiring binge that this would require. Indeed, in 1970 USAID employed...