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The Limits of a Smaller, Poorer China
In a little-noticed mid-summer announcement, the Asian Development Bank presented official survey results indicating China's economy is smaller and poorer than established estimates say.
Albert Keidel,
Financial Times, 14 November 2007
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Three's a crowd
The more children we have, the more stress we put on an already overburdened planet, say campaigners. Observer environment correspondent Juliette Jowit meets the modern Malthusians who, for the sake of the planet, are choosing to 'stop at two'
Juliette Jowit,
Observer, 11 November 2007
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An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom
America needs a president who can revitalize the country's purpose and standing in the world and defeat terrorist adversaries who threaten liberty at home and abroad.
John McCain,
Foreign Affairs, November 2007
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On Musical Cosmopolitanism
Advances in communication technologies over the last four decades - by which I mean increases in their power, capacity and reach, coupled with their miniaturization and distribution across the social field - have wrought fundamental changes in the way music circulates.
Martin Stokes,
Institute for Global Citizenship, 6 November 2007
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The real lessons of Ulster
The Northern Ireland conflict is now fought over the lessons of the Troubles. One apparent lesson is that only extremists can make deals stick. But perhaps the real conclusion is that the late-colonial British did not properly study their own history
Dean Godson,
Prospect, November 2007
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What's the brain got to do with education?
Although current teacher training programmes generally omit the science of how we learn, an overwhelming number of the teachers surveyed felt neuroscience could make an important contribution in key educational areas.
Bristol University Press Release, 29 October 2007
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Apocalyspe now
By comparing Bush to Julius Ceasar, and America's foreign policy to Roman imperialism, Chalmers Johnson is able to grasp terrorism as America's very own nemesis
Stephen Holmes,
Nation, October 2007
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