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GAZA CITY Palestinians flood across the Egyptian border...
...growth, remains hamstrung by corruption and a centrally planned economy. Beijing has taken slow, measured steps to open its financial markets, but obstacles remain. Because China's currency, the yuan, is nonconvertible, capital can't flow freely between Hong Kong and the mainland. And Chinese officials recognize that a flood of mainland money could disrupt Hong Kong's markets. Last year, Chinese authorities cracked down on underground Shenzhen traders funneling yuan illegally into Hong Kong. Aware that speculative investment could destabilize Hong Kong, Chinese financial officials also appear to have indefinitely delayed the "through train," the program that would allow...
Sacred art has always been big business. Both the legal and illegal art markets are flooded with icons and artifacts that were stolen from holy sites in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. But the targeting of Christian art in Europe is relatively new, dating back only a few decades. Conflicts in Cyprus in the '70s, and in Yugoslavia in the '90s, along with the breakup of the Soviet Union, provided a fertile environment for widespread looting of religious art and icons, which have continued to flood the black market. At the same time, cheaper security systems have made...
...Republicans followed suit in moving their caucus up as well, the corresponding decisions by Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to schedule their primaries or caucuses even earlier in the 2008 calendar - not to mention the choice by such crucial states as California, Arizona and Colorado to join the flood of states holding their primary on February 5 - stole most of the thunder from Nevada...
...Children of Eden,” a musical loosely based on the book of Genesis, is being co-directed by a Christian and an atheist.Stephen Schwartz’s two-act musical, which focuses on the stories of Adam and Eve as well as Noah and the Flood, celebrates the unity of mankind and human experience and will run in the New College Theatre from Jan. 7-12. “The musical is fresh, fun, and glitzy—along the lines of ‘Wicked,’” says Nelson T. Greaves...