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May 25th, 2012 - 10:35 am § in China

Can China’s Urbanization Save the World?

Kam Wing Chan Last year marked a milestone in China’s several-thousand-year history: for the first time, more people lived in cities and towns than in the countryside. The country’s 690 million urban dwellers now account for 51.3 percent of China’s total population of 1.35 billion.[...]

May 25th, 2012 - 8:04 am § in Misc.

Only in America … Latkes Benedict!

Image: Olivia Brent Stopsky’s Delicatessen  Seattle Met Latkes aren’t traditionally a breakfast food. And yet their hash brown–pancake hybrid status makes them a natural to work the breakfast shift. At this Mercer Island delicatessen’s weekend brunch, compact cakes of shredded potato form t[...]

May 25th, 2012 - 4:38 am § in Politics, Religion

BREAKING NEWS

Spat with Iraq bares Turk plunge into regional power game ANKARA – A bitter rift with Iraq has exposed Turkey’s role in a wider Middle East power struggle, with Ankara acting to protect its stability and prosperity from an Iranian-Iraqi “Shi’ite axis” it fears in the wa[...]