Yangon Journal: A Tiny Window on the U.S., Prized by Those Peering In
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MyanmarÂs bustling American Center is testimony to how a library can burnish AmericaÂs reputation and comfort those living under autocratic rulers.
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A commercial photographer and train buffâs works seem at once folksy and uncanny, with phallic monsters of industrial dynamism racing through benign, Norman Rockwell-esque visions of semirural America.
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IT WILL be just like old times in Little Rock today. The great and the good from the Democratic party gather in Arkansas to remember a time when Democrats ruled in Washington, the United States enjoyed years
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if our cityâs status and the currency that backs it are more contested than they once were, that only makes the opening of the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street last month more urgently intriguing.
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, in Little Rock, Ark., sprawls across eight years of big ambitions and small details.
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Blog: In a tiny mountain town, progress means that the General Store is right next door to a place for disconnected travelers to chop off a little piece of the Internet
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Several blocks south of the site where the World Trade Center once stood, a new exhibit gives visitors a brief impression of what it was like to stand close to the fluted walls of the twin towers and gaze upward.
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What it will take to win hearts and minds outside the U.S.
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Some version of the immigrantâs tale told in âGolden Doorâ is part of the family history of millions of Americans.
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Some of the hottest offerings in the U.S. are from other places.
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In some quarters, they were seen as outside intruders trying to tell the United States how to run its affairs. They were welcomed and honored in others, even asked to pose for souvenir photographs.
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Something is happening here that no government institution seeking to serve citizens should ignore completely.
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More Americans are Googling themselves Â and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too.
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There was a time the words âMade in Chinaâ immediately evoked âshoddy.â Lately, many Americans are thinking âdanger.â
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Blog: Policymakers like to boo-hoo statistics showing the nation trails many foreign counterparts in per capita Net subscribers. A Washington think tank calls for measuring the situation in a new way.
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Most U.S. visitors are not fully screened for terrorist or criminal ties, according to a Justice Department watchdog. The reason: Bush administration agency infighting over such things as how many fingers to print.