From the latest issue of the Economist:

-Remember that lame schoolyard joke about the Polish submarine with the screen door? Kazakhstan, of all places, wants a navy.

-Everything has changed, nothing has changed. Don't expect any really significant reform to come out of China's recent hints at democracy.

-Leave 2 rival factions in a closed, finite space and eventually they'll kill each other off. That's what's happening between Israel and Palestine.

-The humble New Jersey diner has just been lifted to new heights of culinary legitimacy by an article in the Economist.