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...Right now, the Chinese hang on to their earnings because they feel they must. Nobody has their back if they get sick or lose their job. Beijing spends only 5% of GDP on health care, pensions, unemployment benefits and other social services. (U.S. social-welfare spending as a percentage of GDP is about 20%.) That is a depressingly low figure, even for a relatively poor developing country. I recently interviewed a migrant worker from Sichuan province who several months ago broke his arm in an industrial accident. He's back home now, without a job, without unemployment benefits...
...Peace House, a small wooden home turned into an antiwar HQ by a group of Dallas activists during Bush's first term, a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign hangs on the toolshed. Dozens of shoes adorn the picket fence, their soles pointing streetward in solidarity with the Iraqi journalist who threw his footwear at Bush. Late in the afternoon, a long black limousine slides across the nearby railroad tracks, but it is only a group of Crawford High seniors off to celebrate prom night in nearby Waco. North of town, the pasture dubbed Camp Casey in honor of Sheehan's fallen...
...while Washington's public humiliations often hang on mere misdemeanors of a sexual, financial or chemical nature, the economy depends on Geithner's ability to restore confidence, as President Barack Obama argued in a prime-time press conference on Feb. 9. "My instruction to [Geithner] has been, Let's get this right. Let's create a template in which we're restoring market confidence," he said, later adding, "Ultimately, the government cannot substitute for all the private capital that has been withdrawn from the system. We've got to restore confidence so that private capital goes back...
...Next year, Flahive will bring her competitive spirit and unmatched work ethic to a Boston-based consulting firm, Cambridge Associates, but don’t expect her to hang up her spikes just...
...freshman, it is easy and almost natural to hang in the background and not contribute as an active voice on the team, especially surrounded by star grapplers O’Connor and Jantzen as workout partners. Then again, Peppelman is not the average freshman...