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...much about Bode (Bo-dee) Miller is conventional. Raised in a mountainside cabin in Franconia, N.H., that lacked electricity and plumbing, he was home-schooled until he was 8 by hippie parents. His father Woody was on the ski patrol and sold energy snacks to scrape by. His mother Jo came from a family of racers. As a young boy he spent nearly every winter day on nearby Cannon Mountain. His mother dropped him off at the base of the hill, and he would find his own ride home. In the summer, tennis gave him agility and soccer a great...
...ranks to become a "remarkable proletarian revolutionary," as state news agency Xinhua called him. Following his appointment as a general in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he served on the party's Central Committee and was admitted to the Beijing politburo in 1982. His death makes Bo Yibo, father of current Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, the last living "Immortal...
...Judging from the achievements of your work, I should say that 70% of what you have done has been pretty good." BO XILAI, China's Commerce Minister, on his counterpart, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans. The Communist Party gave the same approval rating to Mao Zedong...
...lunch in Ho Chi Minh City: the streets of Vietnam's southern capital are lined with choice selections from the country's larder, available for marvelously small sums. Take a stroll from Ben Thanh market, along Le Thanh Ton street, and stop off at a street-side phó bo stall for your appetizer. Vietnam's signature dish of beef noodles - flavored with star anise, cilantro (coriander) and fish sauce - is a soupy snip at 30? per bowl...
...bought Korean SUV maker Ssangyong. A consortium of Chinese companies bid on the Canadian mining firm Noranda. According to a recent study by Bain & Co., China's foreign investments will reach $86 billion by 2015. These global ambitions have generally been encouraged by the government, with Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai last month urging the nation to "reinforce our invest-abroad strategy...