For your leisurely weekend perusal:
- A graphic look at Barack Obama's 337,729 kilometers of travel in 2008, and
- A nice look at international post-Inauguration Day front pages.
- China unrest watch: Downturn likely to hit Chinese workers hardest, In China, out of work migrants destabilizing, A tidal wave of discontent threatens China, and As China's jobless numbers mount, protests grow bolder.
- A heartbreaking (and riveting) narrative of a life far, far worse than yours. And coverage and reaction: 1, 2, 3, 4.
- Bhutan's Radicalized Refugees, parts 1, 2, & 3.
- Insight on Turkish/Israeli relations.
- And while in the region, Armenia feels boxed in, and the Armenian question is still a briar patch for Turkey.
- A long look at Saving Easter Island.
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