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...situation with China, which wields a veto at the Security Council, is worse. After weeks of refusing even to discuss a new sanctions resolution (as punishment for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and talks with the Dalai Lama), Beijing said this week it was willing to restart the conversation. But even if China were to agree in those talks to a moderate expansion of the same sanctions within existing categories, that's a far cry from the "crippling sanctions" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had last year threatened would be the price of continued Iranian defiance. (Read "On Iran Sanctions...
...buying guide. That bullish view is supported by a new round of positive economic signals. While consumer confidence remains shaky, underlying economic indexes, such as freight-car loadings and oil-rig counts, show that the overall economic picture is improving. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...significant period before and after a major earthquake," Grant says. In the 1st century, the Greek historian Diodorus recounted how rats, centipedes and snakes escaped from the city of Helice in 373 B.C. a few days before an earthquake dropped it into the Corinthian Gulf. After an earthquake struck China's Sichuan province in 2008, killing 68,000 people, residents in the city of Mianzhu said they had seen a mass migration of toads precede the tremor - a sign, perhaps, that the amphibians had known what was coming...
During her time at Harvard, Gao has been actively involved with the Chinese Student Association and other cultural organizations. When it came time to look for a job, being able to work in China was a major plus for her. “I’m taking Chinese, I have family in China, and China’s market is growing at a very fast rate,” she says. “I would like to be a part...
...will always be Zane. I have even tried on a couple of other names for size before. At French camp when I was 16, I was “Zazie.” Zazie was the outgoing goofball I never had the courage to be in high school. In China, I was Wu Hanrui: traveler, socialite, and obsessive photographer...