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...modern society--roads, running water, electricity. Today nearly half the country's 22 million people live in Riyadh or Jidda, and Saudis make up the biggest market for U.S. consumer products in the Middle East. When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac SUVs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday night...
...collecting Social Security benefits. Meanwhile, the $1 million she had managed to save in tax-advantaged accounts would grow to $1.3 million or so. Only then would she start tapping the income from her nest egg. Parry looked forward to filling her golden years with golf, restaurant meals and frequent travel...
...face still adorns everything from the gate of the Forbidden City to kitschy Cultural Revolution clocks. The portraits serve as frequent reminders that, with each succeeding generation of cadres, the throw weight of Beijing has diminished. Market liberalization introduced by Mao's successor, Deng Xiaoping, started the decay by freeing millions of entrepreneurs from the state's grasp. Today, Jiang, only the third leader in the history of the People's Republic, has neither the adulation of the masses nor the authority of his predecessors. It is the thousands of mayors, governors, Communist Party chiefs and other functionaries from China...
...modern society-roads, running water, electricity. Today nearly half the country's 22 million people live in Riyadh or Jidda, and Saudis make up the biggest market for U.S. consumer products in the Middle East. When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac SUVs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday night...
AIDS ALERT In this, the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, many young gay men still don't know whether they are infected with the AIDS virus. Researchers tested 6,000 men who frequent gay hangouts in New York, Dallas and four other U.S. cities and found that among those who had HIV, 90% of blacks, 70% of Hispanics and 60% of whites said they had no idea they were infected. The problem: not knowing who's carrying the AIDS virus makes it all the more difficult to stop its spread. --By Janice M. Horowitz...