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Krause says he does not spend much time engaged in such speculation. At the moment, he and his colleagues are preoccupied with sequencing the Denisova hominin's nuclear genome. Using high-tech lab equipment and supercomputers, they are trying to make sense of this strange and startling discovery, in much the same way that their ancestors might have done tens of thousands of years ago, when they peered out into a windswept Siberian clearing and saw creatures at once familiar and foreign moving through the snow...
...cost of college tuition across the country rose five percent last year, making college education inaccessible for many bright students. Some high school graduates are now relying solely on their intellectual faculties and ingenuity to build successful local businesses that don’t require degrees to manage...
...this traditional sticking point is now compounded by a newer contest. Yes, we see now that both sides' economic aspirations are leading to more competition, especially in Asia, and this is slowly spilling over in a negative way into the realm of high politics of security and diplomacy...
...politicized to an extent rarely seen before. A fight between Washington and Beijing over the value of China's renminbi is part of that. So too are the noises China is making about requiring all government purchases to be from companies that "innovate" in China - a proposal that foreign high-tech companies fear is a way to cut them out of deals. At a moment when Beijing is increasingly confident of its own economic stewardship, these squabbles have the potential to intensify, further poisoning commercial relations...
...wants a trade or currency war." Even as the China Development Forum was taking place, Wen noted that a Chinese envoy was en route to Washington to discuss trade issues, and pointed with hope to a May session of the biannual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, at which high-ranking delegations from both sides will sit down in Washington. "You got a sense," says an American participant, "that he wants calmer heads to prevail...