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...wedding boom, though, has brought some social strains. Because good weather and good astrology coincide so rarely, millions of weddings are held on a few select nights during the cool winter season. In Delhi, that means up to 15,000 weddings a night, causing dusk-to-dawn gridlock for 14 million residents, as hundreds of thousands of guests cross town, park on the sidewalks and later weave unsteadily back home. To rein in the bacchanalia, local police have begun raiding unlicensed wedding parties and impounding gifts as evidence. Ahead of the estimated 30,000 weddings scheduled in the city...
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...China's continuing boom and its uneasy economic relationship with the U.S. was a central preoccupation of this year's World Economic Forum. "This locomotive has changed the whole structure of the global economy," said Zhu. "The U.S. and Japan are no longer the global-growth engine." At the end of last year, China officially adjusted the size of its economy in an attempt to better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn't counted in previous, Soviet-style central-planning statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past...
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...decades, by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting on his bunk during a break between shifts last month, when TIME was invited for a rare visit to the oil operation. "We have nothing...