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...once welcomed Tibetan exiles, including the Dalai Lama himself, now restrains Tibetan protesters. Nepal has done the same, sometimes brutally, and has indicated that it will clear and secure the Everest route for the Olympic torch - thereby possibly pre-empting anti-China protests. Twenty years ago, when China was weaker, a boycott might have been possible, since other countries could ignore Beijing. Today, the world needs China, with all its warts, to help solve diplomatic crises from North Korea to Sudan, to power the ailing global economy and to help bring stability to its neighborhood. Today, China can no longer...
...people just don’t think women can be funny. Popular belief seems to locate the sense of humor in an anatomical region conspicuously absent from the average female. Indeed, in 2007, researchers found that women expect less from jokes than men do. They laugh more and at weaker punchlines than their male counterparts, although, when pressed, they admit that they find fewer things actually funny. There are, apparently, evolutionary reasons for this—for males competing to pass along their genes, a sense of humor belonged in the arsenal right next to mammoth-hunting and the ability...
...some losses expected in export sales. He says that some Japanese firms have accumulated profits in the past years and can now be expected to live off of this while the yen stabilizes. If you take into account exchange rate and inflation, the current level is much weaker than in the beginning of this decade," says Omori. "Firms have diversified their procurements and improved hedging, and have been able to cope with stronger yen - if it is a short run." However, says Omori, if the exchange drops to 96 or 95, the government will need to consider intervention...
...advantages one Democrat derives from negative campaigning against the other, they are nothing compared with the resulting fallout the party faces in the general election. If the campaign turns in to a gloves-off fight until the Pennsylvania primary, whoever emerges from the rubble will be in a considerably weaker position to face the Republican Party. If it is Hillary Clinton, the vicious campaigning will have served to remind voters of her divisiveness. This certainly seemed the case in South Carolina. If Barack Obama is the candidate, his message of a new, hopeful brand of politics will have been wholly...
...applying to colleges,” Riley said. “It’s a little different than A + B = C. It’s obvious the number of seniors is going to decline. That doesn’t necessarily translate into a less selective process or a weaker class. There could be more college applicants, but they could apply to more colleges...