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...Before the New Economy showed up, 2.2 percent growth wasn't shabby at all; now it's dire news. The Tech Decade didn't just produce Greenspan's "irrational exuberance," it produced his "wealth effect," in which fat portfolios make for long shopping lists. Consumer spending kept us afloat while the world sank, and now that the engine of our recent prosperity is misfiring, wallets are closing all over America...
Last year India and Pakistan almost fought a war over Kashmir. Now they appear set to make peace, with India extending its unilateral cease-fire against separatist groups there, and now Pakistan beginning to withdraw its troops. Why the change...
...bound to, and Pinochet is legally obliged to make himself available. He can't refuse. An interrogation has to take place within 20 days - so he'll probably try to see the general sometime in January. But there's also the issue of medical checks, which Chilean law requires when someone over 70 is prosecuted. Pinochet is 85, and they are legally bound to check whether he's insane, and whether he can respond to questions. It's a little confusing, because there are so many different cases against Pinochet, and it's not clear whether this issue of medical...
...Technology may open up doors, but it has no answer for some problems. China is already waist-deep in this global economy and may be about to make the final plunge, but that won't necessarily help it resolve such basic challenges as providing clean drinking water to its population a decade from now, let alone maintaining social order. And the intelligence community is under no illusion that all that China needs to stave off chaos is democracy - after all, the combination of democracy and a frog march to a market economy turned Russia into a gangster's paradise, while...
...globalization. States remain the main actors on the international stage, but their ability to control the movement of everything from capital and commodities to guns, diseases and people is being diminished. And dealing with such a world requires that the U.S. adapt its own government structures and make them more interdisciplinary than at present...