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...Malthusian nightmare. Government leaders credit China's stringent population control with helping spur economic growth by reducing the number of mouths that must be fed. But in 2002, as personal freedoms proliferated in other areas of life, parliament voted to ease the deeply unpopular policy. Instead of forbidding extra children outright, the new law, among other reforms, allowed couples to have multiple offspring if they were willing to pay big fines. The costs can be exorbitant for peasants like Li--$365 or more for the first additional child in Linyi, around four times the average annual net income in this...
...provincial meeting last year, Linyi officials were castigated for having the highest rate of extra births in all of Shandong, according to lawyers familiar with the situation. The dressing-down galvanized what appears to be one of the most brutal mass sterilization and abortion campaigns in years. Starting in March, family-planning officials in Linyi's nine counties and three districts trawled villages, looking to force women pregnant with illegal children to abort, and to sterilize those who already had the maximum allotment of children under the local family-planning policy. According to that regulation, which exists in a similar...
...visitors to submerge themselves in the truffle habitat using all five senses. You can listen to forest sounds such as rain and crickets; feel the textures of truffles and pinecones; sniff woodland scents from sweetgrass to the piquant truffle itself; and taste a local truffle in season (for an extra...
Ideally, refinancing makes sense only if you use the extra cash to add security rather than risk to your retirement assets. In a less happy scenario, it may also make sense if your other debts are so out of control that consolidating them into one lower-interest loan is the only way to crawl out from under. But, financial planners warn, if you're using your home to reduce debt, don't rack up more debt once everything is paid...
...educated!" he sputtered, according to a transcript reprinted in Nixon aide John Dean's book The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, Nixon's re-election fight loomed, and he believed that appointing a woman could win him an extra 1% or 2% of the vote. So when the discussion turned to a little-known Justice Department lawyer named William Rehnquist-a man Nixon had just met three months earlier ("Is he Jewish?" the President had asked shortly after meeting him, according to Dean's recollection; "he looks it")-Nixon...