Frank Luntz, Words That Work: It"s Not What You Say, It"s What People Hear (New York: Hyperion, 2006), p. 165.

156 strategy known as "starve the beast"

Bruce Bartlett, " "Starve the Beast": Origins and Development of a Budgetary Metaphor," Independent Review, Summer 2007.

157 U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will be 70 percent in 2013

Congressional Budget Office, "The 2012 Long-Term Budget Outlook," exceeds GDP if money the government owes to itself is added to the debt

Agence France-Presse, "US Borrowing Tops 100% of GDP: Treasury," August 3, 2011; Matt Phillips, "The U.S. Debt Load: Big and Cheap," Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2012.

159 no perceptible effect on the demand for U.S. bonds

Tim Mullaney, "A Year After Downgrade, S&P"s View on Washington Unchanged," USA Today, August 7, 2012.

160 add approximately $1 trillion to interest payments over the next decade

Jeanne Sahadi, "Washington"s $5 Trillion Interest Bill," CNN Money, March 12, 2012, "the diffusion of power away from government"

Joseph S. Nye, "Cyber War and Peace," Project Syndicate, April 10, 2012, not even close to the fiscal conditions that would have reduced the risk

David Marsh, "The Euro"s Lost Promise," New York Times, March 17, 2010; Sven Boll, "New Doc.u.ments Shine Light on Euro Birth Defects," Der Spiegel, May 8, 2012.

163 for the two decades since reunification-at an estimated cost of $2.17 trillion

Katrin Bennhold, "What History Can Explain About the Greek Crisis," New York Times, May 21, 2012.

164 plant varieties that were especially suitable for cultivation

Jared Diamond, "What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?," New York Review of Books, June 7, 2012.

165 Fertile Crescent (and in nearby Crete)

Ibid.

166 several other areas of the world, including Mexico, the Andes, and Hawaii

Ibid.

167 shared form of national languages stimulated

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, new ed. (New York: Verso, 2006), pp. 3948.

168 difficulty communicating with speakers of other forms

Ibid.

169 further strengthened national ident.i.ties

Ibid.

170 while often neglecting to include narratives

Ibid.

171 China and Korea have regularly become sources of tension in Northeast Asia "j.a.pan Textbook Angers Chinese, Korean Press," BBC News, April 6, 2005, Google Translate

Franz Och, Google Official Blog, "Breaking Down the Language Barrier-Six Years In," April 26, 2012,