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...epic story of China's modernization has often been told in numbers. Once dormant, insulated and ravaged by war and social upheaval, China is now the world's third biggest economy with more mobile-phone users and, by the end of this year, more car sales than anywhere else on the planet. But the story behind those numbers, of the coal miners and assembly-line workers, of the parents and children they've left behind and the arduous journeys made out of sheer desperation to find work, has rarely been given the same attention as the country's impressive economic...
...course, four-star generals don't get to the top without knowing how to look after themselves - and their charges. One of SBY's biggest priorities during his first term was overseeing a massive campaign to root out the Islamic militants who had conducted a series of deadly terror attacks since 2002. For four years, calm reigned in Indonesia. Yet just nine days after the President's re-election, fatal bombings at Jakarta hotels shattered any illusion that extremism had been eradicated. Raids on terror hideouts resulted in the killing of Noordin Top, the Malaysian militant who is believed...
...biggest setback for conservatives came in a special election for the upstate seat, won by a Democrat for the first time in generations. The Republican in the race bowed out after being deemed too liberal by national figures like Sarah Palin, who backed Hoffman. His loss may complicate conservatives' 2010 electoral strategy...
WARREN BUFFETT, investor, on his company's $26 billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad--its biggest deal ever and one Buffett calls an "all-in wager" on the U.S. economy...
...biggest distinctions about this ticket is that they have a lot of cost-neutral ideas,” Flores said...