Subject: Editors' Picks: Presented by the Master of International Business at The Fletcher School: A special investigaiton into how U.S. ambassadors shill for American corporations; and the birthing secrets of China's tiger moms
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:52:26 -0500 (EST)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Friday, January 30

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#1 
STEAMROLLED: An investigation into how a U.S. ambassador helped mega-contractor Bechtel sell Kosovo a $1.3 billion highway it didn't need -- and couldn’t afford: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYytAecd7 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYyoAe461>

#2
FROM THE MAGAZINE: Europe’s carbon-trading was supposed to be capitalism’s solution to global warming. Instead, gangsters and crime syndicates have used the system to steal hundreds of millions of dollars: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYyuA888c target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYypA9843>

#3
SECRETS OF THE TIGER MAMA: FP’s Rachel Lu recounts how she hired a 50-year-old woman to lock her in an apartment for a month and feed her pork knuckles -- all in the name of China’s latest baby-rearing trend: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYyvA4eb6 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>: 
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYyqAb5e1>

#4
BAD ARITHMETIC: Paul Krugman is worried that a lack of peasants will spark a recession in China. Here’s why the world’s largest economy is not as scary as the Nobel prizewinner thinks: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYywA0f23 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYyrA93d5>

#5
Do Svidaniya, Comrade: Belarus’s autocratic president has perfected the art of weaving between Russia and the West. But with the fighting in Ukraine and Russia’s economy struggling, he is keeping a close eye on Brussels: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYyxA6cdd target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c728ch3.3pw4/VMwFVsPo1o7mqYysA902a>

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