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...decided staying home is better than "Going Out." State companies are still sitting on mountains of cash, and although China's economy is slowing, officials see the global recession as a prime opportunity to cheaply acquire holdings of strategically important natural resources such as iron ore, copper, oil and gas - commodities China's leadership knows it will need much more of in the long run. In the past month, Chinese companies have bought assets abroad at an unprecedented pace. Aluminum Corp. of China (Chinalco), a major holding company focused on resources, has announced plans to invest $19.5 billion...
...There is a lot more oil and gas where that came from, if Beijing can bring itself to depend on Moscow as a supplier. That isn't as easy as proximity might suggest. The two countries have never trusted each other. But economics now dictates that historical enmity be put aside. With the collapse of oil prices and the credit crisis, Russia needs cash. China needs fossil fuels; it needs them from a variety of suppliers far into the future - and it has the money to pay for them. Half of the country's massive national savings of $2 trillion...
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY $10.5 billion, a 35% budget increase. Calls for the creation of a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, funding for Great Lakes cleanup and investments in water-infrastructure projects...
...Currently, Barry’s Corner features only a small convenience shop, a gas station, a Dunkin Donuts, and a vacant former Citgo station owned by Harvard...
Lachendro says tests conducted on the hair turned up traces of Zyklon B, the deadly pesticide used to gas Auschwitz prisoners. Lachendro presented the Spiegel TV reporters with a bale of cloth that he said was made from human hair. He said former workers at the alleged Schaeffler factory in Kietrz testified that at least two train-car loads of human hair were delivered to the factory from Auschwitz...