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America’s sneezing: diagnosing global inflation

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Is This a Recipe for Na Success, or Is It Just a Bit of Opportunism?

Some of these medium sized countries are asserting hard power to defend plausible or legitimate security concerns. Is this just a bit of opportunism, because america, the world's policeman, isn't there to intervene? Most of them are quite bad at it. We have some evidence that certain rare consonants might be more prevalent at high altitudes as they are poportedly easier to pronounce in low air pressure. Another group of linguists has found that languages that use tones on vowels to distinguish one word from another, are linked with humid climates. And perhaps the most intriguingx ple is a new link between geography and vocabulary that was discovered.

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