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...remember slipping into the backseat of a black Audi, one of the first personal cars to hit the Chinese market. I remember going with my pre-school class on a field trip to the first Kentucky Fried Chicken that opened in Shanghai. I remember putting on my best dress to take my first airplane ride on the new jets of the fledgling domestic airline industry...
...troops work in railroad and work battalions. Whatever the fate of the newly demobilized thousands, the cuts should help streamline and modernize a relatively backward military machine. They also serve a broader purpose. Just six months ago, Defense Minister Zhang Aiping declared that defense production should take a backseat to building up the state economy...
...ruthless drug gang situated along the U.S. border, Lazcano has perpetrated crimes that range from the brutal to the bizarre. In one instance last summer, Mexican officials say, Lazcano murdered a prominent Tijuana publisher in his car in broad daylight as his two young children watched horrified from the backseat. In January the Zetas attempted a raid on a federal prison in Matamoros, Mexico, during which they allegedly blindfolded, handcuffed and shot six prison employees in the head. Lazcano's men--many of them former commandos in the Mexican military--have launched rocket-propelled grenades at police, and Lazcano...
...million, paying the salaries of an additional 1,000 accountants, lawyers and economists. No one expects those changes to eliminate corporate fraud entirely. But CEOs may no longer claim, like the old joke about the drunk driver who gets in a car crash, that they were sitting in the backseat. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/ New York
...ghostly intonations of the opener “Hunted By A Freak” and the passive pleas floating along on “Cody,” the songs here are made up entirely of the interplay between swelling guitars and keyboards, with the percussion in the backseat...