- Africa is attracting investors eager to take advantage of a flourishing market, but the big question is whether the gap keeps growing between those who have led the economic revival and those waiting to be part of it.
- Saudi Arabia is considering using firing squads for executions due to a shortage of official swordsmen.
- China is putting together its new foreign policy team and Willy Lam thinks the appointments confirmed so far “suggest that China wants to improve the optics of its relationship with the United States, if not the substance.”
- The Guardian has investigated how the bodies of 110 men suddenly washed up in a river running through Aleppo.
- The New York Times spoke to a mother and daughter as they watched Hugo Chávez’s funeral from their home in Caracas, showing a snapshot of both sides of the Venezuelan political divide.
- The Chinese communist party’s efforts to resuscitate the spirit of Lei Feng on the 50th anniversary of his death have been met with some derision.
- Vanity Fair has published Richard Engel’s account of being kidnapped and held captive by the shabiha militia in Syria.
- David Remnick looks at the scandal at the Bolshoi, and considers how the ballet company has acted as a microcosm of imperial Russia, Soviet Russia and latterly Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
- Rising life expectancy has been used as an argument for raising the eligibility age for social security and Medicare in the US. But higher income workers tend to live longer – which means that “low-income populations would be subsidizing the lives of higher-income people”.
- In November 2011, Paul Frampton, a theoretical particle physicist, met a Czech bikini model on an online dating site. This encounter was to take him on an adventure through South America, where he was asked to deliver a package for her. Read about the suitcase full of trouble.
Smart Reads March 11, 2013
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