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...this aborted arms shipment suggests, China's African honeymoon appears to be over. When President Hu Jintao embarked upon his first trip there, in 2004, African nations, flush with the romance of a first date, fell over themselves in welcome. China inked deal after deal: a $2.3 billion stake in a Nigerian offshore petroleum field; a $1.5 billion pact to upgrade Ethiopia's telecom system; massive investments in Angola, now China's largest source of oil imports. China won diplomatic victories, too, getting Chad, Malawi and Senegal to switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing in just the past three years...
...eaten a meal, or even just observed Harvard’s idiosyncratic campus knows just how maddening the layout of our school can be. Some of that’s not our fault: a large fraction of the campus was built long before modern conveniences like laptop computers or flush toilets, and provisions for these have been added haphazardly...
...Still, the Sudanese capital, flush with oil revenue, is in the the throes of an economic boom despite U.S. sanctions. New hotels and office complexes are rising across the city, as investment pours in from the Gulf States and China. And, sanctions or not, the ultimate status symbol visible in Khartoum's most fashionable neighborhoods is the Humvee...
...about to get hit by a car, I'd yell, "Hey, environment, watch out!" I get weepy when I see a poorly rendered CGI polar bear drown. But unlike me, Cassandra was taught to spend more time actually caring than remembering that she is supposed to. We flush the toilet only when absolutely necessary, for instance. Which, in my unenlightened opinion, would mean every time we use it, especially since her being a child of hippies means we have to take a lot of vitamins and eat asparagus...
...appointment-only vip suites, where they can do everything from sip champagne to host a party while they peruse a selection of the shop's handpicked merchandise, including exclusive looks from Balenciaga and limited-edition Chanel 2.55 handbags (the only ones sold outside Chanel flagships). For the really flush shopper, there is even a $200,000 Hublot watch. "People often say that we are doing something very new and innovative, but we are only practicing good old business methods of thinking thoroughly about what customers want and providing them with the best service," says Takashita modestly...