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 From 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia and carried out a horrific genocide, killing an estimated 2 million people. Now the country is struggling to rebuild. A young, U.S.-educated Malaysian visits Cambodia and speaks with her peers.
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 There was intense interest in the U.S. presidential election throughout the world, and the responses to Sen. Obama’s victory were almost uniformly positive. In a way that has never occurred before the global community appears to be looking to the new president as a global leader, providing new opportunities for global cooperation and coordination.
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 John Zogby is one of America's most successful pollsters. In a new book entitled The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream, he describes today’s young adults—those born since 1978 and now in their 20s—as “different”. The major factor that distinguishes them from any other generation in American history, he reports, is that they view themselves as “citizens of the planet, not of any nation in particular.”
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 Democracy came to two smaller Asian nations, both with deeply traditional cultures, and both located in the world’s highest mountains. What was most unusual about Bhutan’s transition to democracy was the fact that its hereditary monarch had led it. In Nepal the process was more typical, with a Maoist insurgent party forcing the reigning king from power.
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