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Americans in general and American NBA fans in particular will never, ever understand the frenzy that drives the league's international players to play for their national teams in the offseason. As one NBA official put it last week, the ongoing European Championships in Spain are a bigger deal to many of the players in the tournament than the Olympics. And ...
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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The European Union is in danger of extending beyond its proper geographical and cultural limits. Frankly, this title is misleading.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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Reader Himanshu Bhutani sends us a picture.
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In a few years, Iraq will be a distant, if painful memory. Our new focus almost certainly will be on Iran and North Korea. In the strange way that geopolitics
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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The following is adapted from an article published Wednesday on CQ.com.
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This past Sunday the Washington Post ran a piece on the possibility of a nuclear war with China. To my knowledge it's the first to appear in such an auspicious publication, so I'll quote it at length:Given China's appetites and our alliances and interests, a war is not inconceivable in Taiwan, or in Korea. To remove American nuclear escalation from the equation, China would need not parity but only a deterrent such as it has long possessed. The Chinese, however, whose nuclear thresholds are dissimilar to ours, would have other options. They know that every facet of America's economy, military and society depends on individual and networked electronic devices. Were these to fail all at once and irreparably, the nation would seize up, perhaps for years.Faced with victory, or with loss, they might choose to -- and who would venture to guarantee that they would not? -- detonate half a dozen high-megatonnage nuclear charges in the mesosphere, in an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) strike perhaps not even in American airspace, cooking almost every circuit and semiconductor, rendering the American government blind, deaf and dumber than it is already and the country unable to resist the inroads that would surely follow.  Heady stuff, written in a hawkish style reminiscent of the Cold War, but does it add up to a plausible scenario for toe-to-toe nuclear combat?
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The winds of change are upon us.
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: It's an unfashionable view, but the exercise of force abroad can be both useful and honourable - unlike lazily directed aid.
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Daniel Altman explains why foreign investment in major American financial institutions may be a good sign.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: The appeal of democracy, the media and America has us all hooked. What if we could replicate that for global institutions?
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There's no doubt about it: foreign technology can whet your appetite. Super-lightweight laptops from Japan, feature-packed smartphones from Europe, and shiny, gotta-get-it devices designed in India, South Korea, and Taiwan are but a few of the items that currently reside on tech's cutting edge. But chances are you will never see those gadgets on store shelves here in the U.S.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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By Kevin J. O'Brien and Thomas  Crampton  Thomas Crampton reported from Paris.  *  In the latest example of a U.S.