Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports – General

DANDONG, China—A freezing December wind rakes across northeast China, as a group of seven children sit in a circle in the living room of a missionary's Dandong apartment, a stone's throw from the border with Stalinist North Korea.

An Austrian steamship which left İstanbul silently on April 28, 1901, stopping briefly in both İzmir and Alexandria, and then passed through the Red Sea and headed towards the Far East, wound up spurring all of the various Western agents and envoys in the region into action.

China — Industries pumping out poisonous substances day after day into rivers that entire communities rely on for their basic water needs - the reality of water pollution in China is one of the country's biggest tragedies.

H/T TPD - To understand the Internet, watch how rumors spread. Too many people evaluate stories by how well they match their preconceptions. Since few “nodes” on the Internet bother to check sources — or even care about sources — the Internet often makes us dumber. Today we examine a rumor spreading like wildfire on the Internet, on a subject of vital importance to America.