The middle path
It is remarkable that India and China have been able to exchange maps on which each has marked out a 545-km section of the international border between them.



Conference gases
Floods have recently visited large stretches of the world's land mass. Britain, industrialised Britain, has just experienced its worst ever floods in 50 years, as Hampshire and West Sussex all but disappeared under vast sheets of water.



The market trap
Among the more bizarre ideas floating around for agriculture in the second generation of reforms is that agriculture should be "liberalised" and left to the benediction (and mercies) of the open market.



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