links for 2006-11-24

• Aircraft Builders Try to Take Some of the Ordeal Out of Flying - WaPo
  Sounds nice, but what might also really help with jet lag is making the trips shorter.
  (tags: airplane comfort development)
• China Filling Void Left by West in U.N. Peacekeeping - WaPo
  As interesting as the China-US and China-Europe relationships are, I'm more fascinated by China-India, China-Russia and certainly China-Latin America and China-Africa -- the bilateral engagements where China is neither threat, rival or peer, but investor/
  (tags: china UN peacekeeping)