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...voters or disaffected Republicans. They don't care about the health of the Democratic Party. All they care about is winning - if not now, eventually. It is time for the Clintons to go, take their baggage and park it at the Clinton library, where all their sordid secrets can remain hidden from our view. Ken Kosier, Verona...
...tons last year, enough to make China the world's largest producer of the precious metal, for the first time supplanting South Africa, which had been No. 1 since 1905. This isn't a fluke. China's surprisingly high reserves and growing domestic demand mean the country will likely remain the industry leader in coming years. Says Paul Atherley, managing director of Leyshon Resources, an Australian mining company: "China is going to become dominant in the world gold industry as a producer, consumer and explorer...
...There's still much to do. Social services are woefully underdeveloped, there's too much dependency on foreign aid and potential Western investors worry both about renewed separatist violence and the introduction of strict Islamic law. Funding for improvement projects has come slowly, allowing resentment to fester. Roads remain badly damaged, while some areas, such as the district of Aceh Jaya, still don't have hospitals. "If a woman needs a C-section she will probably die in childbirth while making the trip to Banda Aceh," says Lynette Johnson, an Australian NGO worker. The provincial government says it is aware...
Still, the Bhutanese remain uncomfortable with the changes under way and especially with one basic political act: mudslinging. Bhutan is a fiercely traditional place, polite and formal. Slow vehicles pull over to let faster cars go by. Etiquette dictates that you wear formal clothes in the presence of the national flag. The vast majority of the nation's 700,000 people subscribe to ex-King Jigme Singye's emphasis on something he calls gross national happiness, which measures not just wealth but how content, healthy and well educated people are, as well as the state of the environment and strength...
That Clinton partisans want her to remain in the race is undoubtedly true. It is also largely irrelevant. Which is why Clinton is coming under pressure to explain her decision to continue through the summer, despite the nearly insurmountable lead Obama holds among elected delegates. "In order for your staying in to be regarded as anything more than the behavior of a sore loser," says a prominent unaligned Democrat, "you have to make the argument for how you'd be a winner. No one can articulate that argument...