Arresting Development

• I’d like to think any social gathering I attend becomes by default an “Eminent Persons discussion.” (New Times)
• If my calculations are correct, the government has made an average of about $2.3 million from each of the 56 institutions it has privatized. (New Times)
• Inyange water acquires RBS’s quality mark, is evidently an industry unto itself. (New Times)
• In two great satellite images, see the difference between Zimbabwe’s communal and private cropland before and after land reform. (Marginal Revolution)
• “Rwanda is not without its challenges…There is the risk that at some point during this stint I will get malaria.” (SF Gate)
• Congo’s roads of ruin. (Globe and Mail)
• A thinker’s guide to the most important trends of the new decade. (Time)
• Seven common Facebook “interests” and what they mean. (Guyism)
• Tourism is not a four-letter-word. (World Hum)

And finally, preoccupations (click to enlarge):