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Status-Anxious CEOs Will Sacrifice Profits for a Knighthood
Is North Korea Shopping For Oil in Libya?
Where Did the Marshall Islands Just Go?
It'll Cost You $7,000 to Report on Australia's Refugee Crisis
How Does a Country Develop a 60 Percent Rape Rate?
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Status-Anxious CEOs Will Sacrifice Profits for a Knighthood
Picture the platonic, if slightly exaggerated, ideal of a CEO: a focused leader of their subordinates, a relentless pursuer of profit -- that is, of course, unless he or she gets distracted along the way. Come to think of it, "sir CEO" has a...
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Thu, Apr 04 2014 1:48 PM
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Is North Korea Shopping For Oil in Libya?
The bizarre tale of the North Korean-flagged oil tanker that has been trying to escape the clutches of Libya's fragile central government has prompted days of conflicting news coverage , precipitated the fall of the country's prime minister, and...
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Tue, Mar 03 2014 8:21 AM
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Where Did the Marshall Islands Just Go?
The Marshall Islands are a leading advocate of international action on climate change. If you ever needed an illustration for why, this is it. This week an unusually high tide, sometimes called a king tide, swept through the island nation's capital...
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Thu, Mar 03 2014 7:47 AM
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It'll Cost You $7,000 to Report on Australia's Refugee Crisis
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE To the cynic, it might look like the island nation of Nauru doesn't want journalists snooping around anymore. The tiny Pacific island nation, which has become a focal point in Australia's increasingly...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 12:14 PM
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How Does a Country Develop a 60 Percent Rape Rate?
The shocking findings of a study on sexual assault in Asia , published Tuesday in the Lancet Global Health journal, have been generating a lot of buzz , particularly the figures on Papua New Guinea, where 59 percent -- yes, more than a majority -- of...
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Wed, Sep 09 2013 2:35 PM
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Al Qaeda-Trained Terrorists in New Zealand, Prime Minister Says
Earlier this month, as the United States rushed to shutter embassies in response to a terrorist threat, New Zealand's prime minister made a remarkable but largely overlooked assertion. According to John Key, there are al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula...
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Mon, Aug 08 2013 2:20 PM
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Australia's terrible, horrible, no good, very sexist week
It has been an awfully strange week in Australia, at least in terms of sexism-related news. First there was Prime Minister Julia Gillard's provocative speech on abortion, then a menu popped up on Twitter featuring "Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried...
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Thu, Jun 06 2013 3:20 PM
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Australian minister too drunk to debate
Drinking at work: it's an ancient and venerable tradition, and one that enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the United States not too long ago. While the practice is still popular in continental Europe, American office culture has in recent decades...
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Tue, Jun 06 2013 3:36 PM
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Why does Australia's prime minister keep getting hit with sandwiches?
Politicians are used to being targets. Hostile media, political rivals, and would-be assassins all figure in the daily threat assessments for public figures. But Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has recently been battling a menace of a distinctly...
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Thu, May 05 2013 11:00 AM
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The even smaller rocks Japan and China are fighting over
With all the attention being paid to the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands at the moment, it's worth keeping in mind that they aren't the only remote pacific islets that China and Japan are feuding over. And despite their much-maligned size and lack of resources...
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Mon, Sep 09 2012 11:15 AM
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Murdoch faces heat in U.S., Australia
There's no relief in sight for the embattled 80-year-old media tycoon. Today, British analysts grappled with a question many have called unprecedented -- what power, if any, does the Parliament have to compel Rupert Murdoch to testify? Murdoch, an...
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Thu, Jul 07 2011 8:41 AM
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Neither rhythm nor rhyme
Public figures are making a habit of lying on their resumes, but (now former) New Zealand military scientist Stephen Wilce has won the prize for most absurd claim . Wilce claimed that he was a member of the British Royal Marines (Wilce was born in Britain...
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Fri, Sep 09 2010 12:55 PM
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Be all that you can be in (somebody's) army - By Charles Homans
In an inspired bit of YouTube surfing, Gawker has assembled a compilation of military recruitment commercials from around the world. There are a few clunkers -- three minutes is an awful long time to watch a Russian paratrooper sort of rapping in front...
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Tue, Aug 08 2010 10:42 AM
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When monkeys attack
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Another side effect of summer heat? In August, according to CNNGo , Japanese monkeys "get most feisty." This year, at least 43 people in Shizuoka prefecture have been...
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Mon, Aug 08 2010 3:43 PM
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Pacific
No Obama boost for Kevin Rudd
On the site today, Dan Drezner and the Shadow Gov. team take President Obama to task for cancelling -- for the second time -- his trip to Indonesia and Australia. The leaders of those countries say they understand the delay. Indonesian President Susilo...
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Fri, Jun 06 2010 10:02 AM
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