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'It doesn't make sense that our citizens should have to pay for the irresponsible behavior of others in these tough economic times.' JEFFREY MERRELL, prosecutor for Missouri's Taney County, defending a new policy of charging inmates $45 per night for room and board
Out of place as it may appear, this is no bridge to nowhere. Soaring a quarter-mile (400 m) above the Baling River, the $216 million span will reduce travel time considerably for the stream of trucks and cars traversing a highway that connects the provincial capital, Guiyang, with the...
What's good for Yuan Bo and Guanling is good for China. While the recession-racked West debates the wisdom of borrowing billions of dollars and spending it on economic stimulus, China is reaching into its vast financial reserves to launch one of the most ambitious and expensive public-works...
China's leaders are using the financial crisis as an opportunity to consolidate gains already made in the country's global competitiveness while laying a foundation for even greater progress in the future - and for the international power that economic prowess can bring. Nationalist voices in the media are already...
For an economy like China's, which is the world's third largest but is still just a third the size of the U.S.'s, the scale of the package is staggering. Total new spending is pegged at $586 billion, about 16% of GDP. In contrast, the $787 billion stimulus...