Mike Brown's " skew.org XML Tutorial" is a reintroduction to XML with emphasis on encoding. It highlights topics that are too often glossed over in other treatments.
Pouring 12 subjects into six "learning areas" is not the same as slimming down; if the curriculum is to become more digestible something must be lost, and just what is being glossed over.
The case of China Zhongwang Holdings, a giant aluminum producer, illustrates how Liaoning province effectively went into debt in a roundabout manner-and concealed the borrowing.
The dictator he presents to the world conceals the father figure who tells a lad off for calling him "Alex" but still admires his spirit and sees life as rich in comedy.
Not only does the GDP mask this erosion, it can actually portray it as an economic gain: an oil spill off a coastal region "adds" to the GDP because it generates commercial activity.