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...India may spend as much as $40 billion on new weapons over the next five years, many coming from U.S. companies. China boosted its military spending this year by nearly 18%. Japan is modernizing its forces, with the Ministry of Defense switching from Russia to China as its potential new enemy. Bolstered by the rising price of oil, Russia sees itself again as a Pacific power and is rebuilding its Asian fleet...
...wholeheartedly support Stengel's call for national service. I have written my Representatives proposing an idea, to no avail. I suggest that instead of creating elaborate laws to solve the problem of illegal immigration, we should require that illegal aliens spend a year in national service--defending the country in the military, rebuilding infrastructure or combating climate change in a green corps--to become eligible for citizenship...
...secret dream of every oenophile: give up the desk job, move to a vineyard and spend the days crafting wines. Then reality sinks in--bills, obligations, bills--and the dream becomes a passing fancy...
...after all, in the age of the involved parent, or the overinvolved parent. The theory of "attachment parenting" espouses sleeping in the same bed with Baby for early bonding. Schools complain of hovering "helicopter parents," a label that some moms and dads wear proudly. The amount of time candidates spend with their young kids is even an issue in the primaries. For the enlightened 21st century mom and dad, quality time has met quantity time. Never mind the bleach: the idea of having kids care for themselves, separate from parents, rings faintly abusive in itself...
...pair's departure was a serious blow to a department that lost several scholars during Summers’ tenure, including star professor Cornel West, who left for Princeton after Summers suggested in a much-publicized confrontation that he should spend less time on developing rap CDs and more time on traditional scholarship...