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...night, the streets of Phnom Penh reveal the country's vast wealth gap. In front of shopping centers selling luxury cosmetics, whole families sleep on patches of sidewalk; beggars missing limbs, a legacy of civil war, crowd outside upscale restaurants where a tiny élite downs French entrées and chic cocktails. But many average Cambodians hope this poverty will vanish, thanks to an apparent miracle: the country has discovered oil. Off Cambodia's southern coast, explorers have found as much as 500 million barrels, potentially providing over $1 billion annually to the country...
...will be a main topic of discussion. Long a complaint aired primarily by the French, American willingness to allow the dollar to slip, which makes U.S. exports cheaper compared to foreign rivals, is now being denounced by a growing number of E.U. officials. Responding to the widening exchange rate gap from Luxembourg on Monday, Jean-Claude Junker - head of the Eurogroup of 13 nations who share the euro as their currency - complained about American indifference to dollar's slide...
...which locations have particularly poor security. Yet despite the recent improvements, the report says that steps to minimize the nuclear threat are insufficient, citing the danger posed by recent breaches including terrorist teams carrying out reconnaissance at nuclear warhead storage sites in Russia. “A gap continues to exist between urgency of threat and pace of our response,” Bunn said. Bunn devotes a significant portion of the report to stressing the urgent need to combat nuclear proliferation, warning of the repercussions of a “terrorist mushroom cloud over the cinders of a major...
Then the other goal is that, the more I learn about shock the more I understand that shock tactics work best when we are starved of information and are taken by surprise. Shock tactics rely on that element of surprise. They're about a gap between an event and the information we have to explain those events. So the sort of deeper reason why I wrote the book is because I believe that when we understand those tactics we become more shock resistant. That the mere act of sort of unpacking and looking at how we regress in moments...
...unifying similarity between the two? Black irrationality. This is the most vexing problem in race relations, and it’s feeding the “race card” rhetoric that most African Americans hate. There is a perception gap between how different races view our country, but it seems that most of the fault for that has been laid at the feet of blacks. It is black irrationality and not, perhaps, white racism (gasp!), that is at fault. This allows the majority to continually ignore race because it’s not really their issue—it?...