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...outside. "In Chongqing, the transportation system and so on are quite developed," says Shen Xiaozhong, deputy director of the city's office of the National Reform and Development Commission. "But go out 30 km from the city - not that far - and the conditions are still pretty poor." Truth to tell, they're bad enough in parts of the city itself, where legions of "stick stick" men line the sidewalks hoping to earn a few dollars carrying goods up the town's steep hillsides, reminding all who see them of China's lingering poverty...
...would take thousands of them to cover every nook and cranny of Pakistan's long frontier. Several crashes have been reported. Thermal cameras are notoriously imperfect. Even under ideal conditions, images can be blurry. In one of several stills from drone video seen by TIME, it's hard to tell if a group of men is kneeling in prayer or the men are militants in battle formation. "The basic problem with all aerial reconnaissance is that it's subject to error," says George Friedman, who heads the security firm Stratfor. "But in a place like Pakistan, errors have enormous political...
...point out that Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina has refused $700 million in stimulus cash. Please tell the governor he should take it. I recently used Interstate 95, having just returned to New England from a vacation in Florida. The deplorable condition of that road in Sanford's state makes me wonder if he has his head screwed on straight. Take the money and create some jobs. Kevin Murray, MOULTONBORO...
...networks (again, like politicians) tell us what we tell ourselves: that changing times make us changed people, even as we revert to age-old patterns. (This season on 24, Jack Bauer sounded ambivalent about torture but roughed up people anyway.) The zeitgeist makes convenient wrapping to repackage the same sitcoms, hospital dramas and game shows: what was "comfort food" after 9/11, "optimism" in boom times and "inspiration" after Hurricane Katrina is "escapism" today...
...anyone who hates Will Ferrell will have the smack laid down on their candy ass. 6. Become a dragon. 7. Manage a baseball team without letting anyone else know. 8. Host something in your room called a “crotch party.” Don’t tell anyone what it is. Just send out a Facebook invitation to everyone you know, including that girl from freshman year in Lionel who you never talked to after puking while hooking up. 9. Live every week like it’s shark week for one week. 10. Commit a crime...