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FORTUNE's Global 500 is a barren place for Chinese companies. The lowest-ranked firms on the list book $10.3 billion in revenues, and only a handful of mainland companies in banking, telecom, oil and chemicals make the cut. No Chinese manufacturer of consumer goods qualifies. But an upstart called Haier plans to be there soon...
There are few places in the world as barren, empty and isolated as the western plains of Inner Mongolia?which is precisely the region's draw. For a tourist who has seen it all?and endured the throngs that pack most vacation spots?the vast horizons of the northern steppe offer the perfect opportunity to get away from the familiar. Not to be confused with the independent country of Mongolia to the north, Inner Mongolia lies in a giant arc just beyond the Great Wall, stretching from Manchuria in the east all the way west to Xinjiang?and occupying nearly...
Have I have forgotten how to meet people? Maybe I never knew, as my empty Rolodex and barren weekends seem to proclaim. What caused this disastrous social failure? I blame “network aversion...
...despair has left more than a quarter of its 26 million people in need of food. The desperate and malnourished refugees who get to camps on the border with Pakistan are the lucky ones. In the north, hundreds of thousands are trapped behind front lines in the remote and barren central highlands. Tens of thousands more are in western Afghanistan...
...album is “Everything In Its Right Place”: The song that heralded Radiohead’s shift from guitars into the keyboard realm as the eerie first song on Kid A sounded like a band gradually materializing out of the ether on a barren landscape. On Wrong, it sounds like a flat and somewhat aimless keyboard sample underlaying Yorke’s vocals. When deprived of the mystique of distortion, they start to sound a little silly and aimless as he repeats, “This morning I woke up sucking a lemon...