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...casual visitor, the streets of Khotan now seem back to normal. The bazaar is open every morning, selling everything from roast lamb and athletic shoes to handwoven local carpets and the famous local white jade. But the almost exclusively Chinese traders whose small shops line the streets between the large People's Liberation Army base and Unity Square are evasive when asked about relations between the races and the events of March 23, after which many of these shops stayed closed for days. One young woman from Sichuan province says it is getting dark outside and she must close...
...Japan is not without sin. Indeed, when it was industrializing in the last century, Japan was as famous for environmental catastrophes as for conservation. Minamata disease, the consequence of an industrial mercury discharge, caused muscular and neurological damage for thousands of Japanese; dioxin pollution has only recently been addressed. In the 1960s, Tokyo's air had the sort of reputation that Beijing's does today. Japan's household carbon dioxide emissions have increased an estimated 40% since 1990. A visit to any department store is to bear witness to an excess of wrapping and packaging...
...Bernanke ’75, chairman of the Federal Reserve and Class Day speaker, is kind of a big deal. Future investment bankers across campus are salivating over what he might say, but Harvard students have high expectations. If he wants to one-up the famous Marshall Plan speech of 1947, he’ll have to drop some pretty big news. Here are 15 speech agendas that would get our attention...
...EARLY STUMBLE “I dropped out of high school when I was about 15 years old,” Gilbert says, his voice free of a hint of shame. In fact, he views his greatest triumph as appearing on the list of “Most Famous High School Dropouts,” according to the official Web site for “Stumbling on Happiness...
Indeed, the irony is that while Obama may have never been your average Joe, until joining the Senate just three years ago he was something pretty close to it: driving his own cars, answering his own phone, cooking his famous chili for friends and still paying off his student loans. By contrast, Hillary Clinton has been in Washington for more than a decade and John McCain, who has also thrown a few elitist jabs Obama's way, has been there more than two decades...