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...relationship between China and the U.S. may be the world's most complicated. While the two economies desperately need each other - China relies on exports to the U.S. to drive growth while the U.S. requires investments from China to finance its giant deficits - Beijing and Washington nevertheless routinely spar over a wide range of sensitive issues. The U.S. has accused China of manipulating its currency to unfairly promote exports, while China has openly called for the replacement of the U.S. dollar as the world's premier currency. But with so much at stake, the two nations have tried to keep...
...solve the world's most intractable problems, from reform of the global financial system to climate change to nuclear proliferation. Most pressing, cooperation between Washington and Beijing is seen as absolutely crucial to nurturing the budding recovery of the global economy. The two sides need to alleviate the giant economic imbalances - excessive debt and deficits in the U.S. paired with excessive savings in China - to restore the world economy to a more sustainable growth path...
...Sept. 9 (09/09/09, for you "Revolution #9" fans), the Rock Band format takes a giant leap, as fans achieve something novel and, in a way, precious: not just meeting the Beatles but getting a taste of how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr felt performing their work onstage or in the studio. In the process, antiquated Beatlemaniacs may be able to forge a bond with kids who just like good music...
...though, the project is already three years behind schedule and $2 billion over the initial $4.2 billion budget, which has led to arbitration and other legal wranglings. Analysts say many of the problems stem from Areva's impossibly low bid. The troubles in Finland probably contributed to German engineering giant Siemens' January decision to pull out of its eight-year partnership with Areva...
...would sound crazy if I claimed that there is therefore a giant media conspiracy to channel undue public attention onto the president’s otherwise normal wife. But I would sound even crazier if I said that I have seen all these pictures without having been forced to do so against my will. Call me crazy, but it seems clear that many major media organizations are doing their part to cast Michelle Obama in a certain mold, one into which she shouldn’t necessarily have to fit—the fashion maven and the cultural arbiter...