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...founder and chief executive of Baidu.com, the dominant search engine in China, the country with the most Internet users in the world. His stake in the company - started in 1999, five years after getting his M.S. from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 - is worth about $2.8 billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University, his boyish good looks hardly fit the profile, and as a result he's attained rock-star status in China, particularly among...
...more accurate, but Republicans, suspicious of overcounting in left-leaning areas, argue that the Constitution's use of the word actual mandates a nose count. Getting it right is important: in addition to its role in doling out congressional seats, the Census influences the allocation of more than $400 billion in federal funds that affect the lives of some 300 million Americans. How many, exactly? It'll tell us that...
...grander scale, Avatar has achieved what many industry savants thought impossible. It has passed the $1.843 billion worldwide gross of the previous all-time smash: Cameron's own Titanic, from 1997. Barring an instant apocalypse, Avatar will have passed Titanic's $600.8 million domestic take by the end of January. Since the new movie's gross is declining only 10% to 15% each week - far less than most pictures - there may be no stopping the Avatar avalanche...
With recently subpoenaed e-mails indicating that the New York Federal Reserve had sought to conceal details of the controversial $182 billion bailout of troubled insurance giant AIG, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner--head of the New York Fed when the e-mails were sent--was called to testify Jan. 27 on Capitol Hill, along with his Treasury predecessor Henry Paulson. At issue: the use of taxpayer money to cover AIG's debts to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street firms. Both men defended the "backdoor bailout" and denied any involvement in the alleged attempt to hide...
...hasn't been a banner few weeks for U.S.-China relations. In mid-January, Google announced that it was contemplating pulling out of China because of repeated attacks on its network as well as censorship constraints. In the past week, the U.S. government authorized $6 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, and the White House announced that President Obama would meet with the Dalai Lama after having postponed that visit last fall on the eve of Obama's trip to China...