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...29th annual Barbie convention sold out in two days, and lit up the District in the doll's signature hot pink, drawing Barbie-lovers ages 13 to 80 from all over the globe, including Russia, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Britain and France. A trio of sisters trekked from Mexico in order to be around other passionate Barbie fans. "There is no Barbie club in Mexico," said the oldest, Leonor Vidal Rosada. (Watch TIME's video: "Turning 50 with Barbie...
...quarterly performance in the island's history. The government forecasts the economy will shrink by 4.25% in 2009. Even before the downturn, Taiwan's tech-dependent, export-dependent model was struggling. Between 2000 and 2007, Taiwan's GDP grew on average 4.1% a year, down sharply from the average annual rate of 6.5% from 1990 to 1999. Read "China's Panda Diplomacy With Taiwan...
...Company disbanded last October after nine years. "Shocking" is how former marketing director Kristin Godfrey described her reaction when she learned the troupe had to be shut down. As a result of plummeting investments at the Argosy Foundation - which sponsored two-thirds of the company's operating budget - the annual contribution became an impossible check to write. Six weeks was all it took, Godfrey says, from the announcement that their main donor was pulling out to the company's final curtain call...
...Washington on Jerusalem (as he has done by resisting pressure for a settlement freeze), and he expects that the more symbolically powerful issue of the Holy City will win him support in the U.S. from Jewish leaders and Christian conservatives. In introducing Netanyahu via a video link at the annual conference of his Christians United for Israel group, arch-conservative Pastor John Hagee promised the support of 50 million Christians for "Israel's sovereign right to grow and develop the settlements of Israel as you see fit and not yield to the pressure of the United States government...
...active ingredient in vaccine, reaped from each batch is only about 25% to 50% of the norm for seasonal flu vaccine. That means it will take longer to manufacture H1N1/09 vaccine - and since very few people have immunity to this flu strain, people may need two shots, which means annual global capacity would drop to a little more than 400 million doses...