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...Chinese socialism - a popular government slogan printed on giant red banners reads "Sweat Today for a Beautiful Home Tomorrow." The exhortation echoes China's 30-year economic expansion, which lifted millions of peasants out of poverty. But it also carries with it an implied coda: earthquake survivors can expect a better future, as long as they don't delve too deeply into the mistakes of the past. "I think Sichuan is very much like China as a whole right now," says Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based scholar. "You can't help but be impressed...
...even harder in the winter, but we have to live, so he goes." Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficultly finding work. Indeed, the extent of rebuilding still required means he can expect construction jobs for years to come. His 50-year-old father works with him, but the family worries about how long he can handle manual labor. So Luo runs her small shop to save money for a life beyond a gray box. "We don't have plans," she says...
...crisis? I think we'll need to show some leadership. The wildcard factor in this economic slowdown is that no one's quite sure how Asia will come through. If it comes through better than people think, then the global slowdown will last for a shorter period than many expect. But there's a lot resting on China, its rescue package and generally on how resistant Asia turns...
...more American children had been going hungry in 2007 than at any other time in the past 10 years. A new Department of Agriculture report says money woes caused 323,000 households to cut back on food for children in 2007, up from 221,000 in 2006. Federal officials expect this year's data to paint an even worse picture...
...flat tires to job placement. Sergeant Daniel Gobbel, who recently moved here from Fort Bliss, Texas, with his wife and daughters, says he appreciates the support the troops decals in storefronts and the way people thank him on the street. He doesn't get that everywhere. "I don't expect to be thanked," he says, "but it sure is nice to hear...