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Published Date: 21 November 2009 BY EUGENE ROGAN Allen Lane, 513pp, £25 PIRATES take over North Africa, armies clash over the holiest of Islamic sites, the great western powers threaten to bomb each other in a squabble over...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 Cheever: A Life By Blake Bailey Picador, 784pp, £25 FOLLOWING John Cheever's death from cancer in 1982, his reputation as a writer and human, despite his alcoholism – indeed abetted by his...
As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a...
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS are almost always right to try to shield a criminal investigation from outside interference. Public pretrial statements by witnesses, for example, could be used by others to shape their testimony;...
If the last century was the age of economic globalization, expect the first half of this one to be the era of urbanization. By 2050, 3 out of 4 people will be concentrated in major cities or massively urbanized regions, many of...
In Houston, the Texas Medical Center is expanding so quickly that it will soon become the seventh largest downtown in the US. By itself. The hospital complex brims with restaurants, shops, and hotels, and employs 100,000 people...
NEW DELHI: Disputing the current approach in handling the international financial crisis and terming it as a typical capitalist solution, an international meeting of communist parties and workers on Friday advocated that...
Rao Yuansheng is trying to preserve the Cantonese language, but even he slips into Mandarin without really noticing. Kevin Lee for Globe and Mail The state-sponsored promotion of China's official language threatens to make...
MADE IN CHINA By CHOW HOW BAN The daring exploits of Du Yuesheng continue with further progress in the drug trade, as he compromises the anti-opium commissioner and takes two more wives. THE British concession gangster Shen...
China has promised severe punishment for officials caught concealing deaths from H1N1 swine flu after a medical expert said suspect cases may have been held back by local governments. The Health Ministry said China had adopted...
