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...Highlights: • The Dirty: Not surprisingly, California - a state beset by air pollution and struggling to amend its fuel-efficiency standards in order to stave off the effects of global warming - contained a good portion of the most-polluted counties and cities in America. Other highly polluted areas, such as the tri-state New York-Connecticut-New Jersey region and the Chicago area, also made it into the top 25 most air-polluted places. The charts - categorized by short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and year-round ozone pollution - break down how many people afflicted by illnesses such...
...which didn't prevent him from winning the endorsement of a prominent women's group). A 2008 TIME 100 honoree and finalist for this year's list, Zuma may not be the prototypical figure to restore order to the beleaguered party of Nelson Mandela-or to guide a nation beset by poverty, violence and AIDS. But he's the man South Africa chose...
...currently operates in four English-speaking markets, is looking to expand into other global markets. Recently, eHarmony has conducted research on married couples in China. Their matching algorithm, Waldorf said, “varies from country to country and culture to culture.” The company has been beset by lawsuits in recent years for not offering gay dating services. eHarmony rolled out a separate gay dating website called Compatible Partners earlier this week as part of a settlement of a 2008 New Jersey case. -Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu
...foreign company - can't even buy a fruit-juice maker in China, one owned and run not by the government but by an old-fashioned entrepreneur who wanted to do the deal? Beijing's explanation aside, there's really no good answer to that question. In a world now beset with more than enough economic problems, including diminished international flows of both goods and money, China just added to the list...
...Naturally, executives for Xanadu, which has been beset by prior delays and cost overruns, offer a different spin. "It's not like people aren't looking to recreate," says Larry Siegel, president of Xanadu. "They are. But people may not be able to rent that house on the beach or pay a few hundred bucks for a three-day pass at Disney. But they can come here and spend $100. If people spend the time here, they're going to spend the money." (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...