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...years from 1996 - has especially been able to benefit from the business of the hundreds of Chinese companies that want to raise money in global markets. Its bankers and brokers are continuing an old story. As they circle the globe - there are no less than 187 direct flights that leave London for New York every week and 28 weekly flights from Hong Kong to New York - staying in their favorite hotels and dining at their favorite private clubs, Nylonkong's financial-services executives are heirs to the Tuscan moneylenders who first stretched the sinews of capitalism 700 years...
...than it was under the Taliban. In the past six years, 3,500 new schools have been built across the country, but fewer than half of them have buildings. Most are in tents, in the shade of trees or wherever open space can be made available. This has a direct bearing on the number of girls enrolled: most Afghan families won't allow their daughters to be where they may be seen by men. "Girls in this society have certain needs," says Education Minister Hanif Atmar. "They cannot be in a tented school or in an open space with...
...Match Point, you used a lot of opera. Do you personally enjoy opera? -Ian Kachemov, Highland, MD.I do like opera. I'm going to direct a small opera this year. I used to go a lot, but [operas] go until 11:30 at night. I get up at 5:30 a.m. and get my exercise and ablutions done-sometimes my clarinet practice even before I go out to shoot. I just can't keep those late hours...
...Kroes admitted that there was no direct evidence of wrongdoing, but she suspected some problems. According to industry figures, the number of novel medicines reaching the market has tumbled over time, from an annual average of 40 between 1995 and 1999, to 28 between 2000 and 2004. "Patent protection has never been stronger, but the number of new pharmaceuticals coming to market is declining," she said. "Without new pharmaceuticals, the quality of some medical treatments will stagnate; without generic products, the cost of some medical treatments will remain high...
...place well before 2017. Mainland officials have hinted that they would like the current functional constituencies - professional voting blocs appointed by Beijing - to remain a feature of Hong Kong's political system, a preference that will be hard to square with full democracy. Wrangling a timetable for direct elections would have been impossible without the public support democrats drummed up, says Ma. But the Democrats must get to work on the details for elections or truly risk losing their relevance...