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...throttle price increases, Chinese officials employed a mix of policies that included limits on bank lending, a throwback to the country's command-economy days. Yet, despite these steps, the mainland's growth does not appear to be slowing appreciably. Investment bank Lehman Brothers expects China's GDP to expand 9% this year and 8% in 2009. "I think they are striking a very delicate balance between controlling inflation and supporting growth," says Qing Wang, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley, which projects even higher growth in China - 10% this year...
...Zohar--a gargantuan work penned in 13th century Spain by Moses de León--that explores divine mysteries under the guise of a commentary on the Torah. But it wasn't until the 18th century emergence of Hasidism as a Jewish movement in Eastern Europe that Kabbalah began to expand beyond its tiny group of scholars. Many Kabbalist masters, however, were killed in the Holocaust, causing the practice to languish temporarily...
Still, did I mention the winters are nice? As baby boomers retire, as Hispanic markets expand, as leftist dictators harass wealthy South Americans, some people will always want to come to Florida. In anticipation of the next boom, developer Pérez has set up a $1 billion fund to buy distressed properties, and Zalewski of Condo Vultures has been besieged by foreign investors. "Eventually, Florida is going to grow again," he says...
...political solution to the growing pro--al-Qaeda militancy in the border regions. Having pressured Musharraf to hold the elections and share power, the Administration had little option but to play along. But dithering among the country's new leaders and the Pakistani military has allowed jihadi groups to expand their operations, making al-Qaeda's leadership harder to reach than it has been in years...
...Like more established sports, competitive eating has its own body of myth (skinny competitors do better, supposedly because their stomachs have more room to expand), strategy (dunking food into juice or lemonade helps it dissolve) and controversy: when world champion Takeru Kobayashi was unseated last year by American Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63, the Japanese nosher was allegedly hobbled by a jaw injury. ("I believed he was fully recovered," Chestnut said.) Top eaters train for months before a big event, and for good reason - this year, some 40,000 fans are expected to come watch...