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...Chinese flu. Since then, however, China stocks have resumed their near-vertical ascent, in recent weeks setting record highs almost daily. By some estimates, there is now more money in the Shanghai stock market than there is in bank savings accounts nationwide-this in a country where the per capita income last year was about $1,750. Yet the mania only seems to grow. On May 9, the total turnover on Chinese bourses exceeded that of all other Asian stock exchanges combined, a first. There are even reports of retail investors borrowing against newly purchased apartments or houses-shades...
...Developing nations make the point that they're not responsible for the vast majority of carbon dioxide hanging around in the atmosphere-which was put there by Western countries during their own development over the past 150 years. They argue that their own per capita-emissions rates are still far lower than those of the West, and that, therefore, climate change isn't their responsibility. But future global warming will hinge on how we deal with future carbon emissions-most of which will come from developing Asia. The center of gravity of climate-change politics has moved to China, India...
...There's certainly a lot of lost ground to be made up. France has languished economically, even as Britain has caught up and overtaken it. In 2002, according to O.E.C.D. statistics, the U.K.'s national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has widened. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France - a mood that Sarkozy is pledging to change...
...certainly a lot of lost ground to make up. France has languished in the economic doldrums for the past few years, even as Britain has caught up and overtaken it. In 2002, according to statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Britain's national income per capita exceeded France's for the first time, and since then the gap has grown sharply. Brits, long the poorer neighbors, are now on average 10% richer than the French. That's one important factor feeding a deepening mood of pessimism about the future in France--a mood that Sarkozy...
...runners with high name recognition, like Giuliani. At the same time, it diminishes the influence that small states have traditionally had on the nominating process - most of all, perhaps, the influence of the Iowa caucuses, where very small groups of highly motivated caucus-goers have had more impact, per capita, than any voters in the country...