With all the talk of green revolutions and feeding the world--which I always post with reminders that the issue is access to food, not food production--here's an example of the longterm effects of destroying local food markets:
"...traditional agriculture began to fall apart in the 1960s after Yemen was flooded with cheap foreign grain, which put many farmers out of business. Qat began replacing food crops, and in the late 1960s, motorized drills began to proliferate, allowing farmers and villagers to pump water from underground aquifers much faster than it could be replaced through natural processes. The number of drills has only grown since they were outlawed in 2002."
Females veterans and PTSD. Make sure you read the stupid-@$$ questions they get, like “How could you have P.T.S.D. when you sat at a desk with a typewriter?”
For models of how not to do counterinsurgency, look to India and Russia.
When I saw that (practically) the entire Outlook section of today's Post was dedicated to the fall of the Berlin Wall, I thought, "how interesting," but most of the articles are kind of blah. This one's good, this one too. What I really liked in Outlook, though, was this quote from this review of "And Here's the Kicker":
Perhaps the best description of humor comes from Dave Barry, who as a newspaper columnist is almost an outsider compared with the rest of these interview subjects: "A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge."
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