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...seen which of the mobile-service providers and equipment manufacturers will manage to grab the largest slice of the pie. Another issue that remains very much in the balance is the fate of Beijing's attempt to bolster the country's technological chops by force-feeding the industry a homegrown version of 3G. More broadly, critics say that the long delay in granting 3G licenses - widely seen as an effort to allow more time for the development of China's own 3G technology to compete with established high-speed standards - means that tens of billions of dollars may be spent...
...sleeper hit Slumdog Millionaire and a double-duty Kate Winslet (The Reader and Revolutionary Road), had already conquered at most of the big awards ceremonies and is looking set to triumph at the upcoming Oscars, too. The British Academy suddenly became all things to all people: it could celebrate homegrown talent and still stay in step with the big guys. (See pictures from the 2009 BAFTAs...
...whose name translates roughly as People's Town. The central square is a traffic island with a Soviet T-34 tank on a pedestal, a World War II memorial. Next to it is a farmers' market, where local babushkas with woolly hats and dodgy teeth sell homegrown carrots and potatoes for 10¢ a kilo. But look closer and it's clear that even Lyudinovo isn't frozen in time. An emporium that opened a year ago sells South Korean refrigerators, French yogurt and fake Italian pumps. Several houses are being built on the outskirts--the first new residential construction...
...been a popular tourist destination dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." Today about 75% of the valley is under the control of a particularly virulent branch of the Pakistani Taliban, which has destroyed schools and terrorized the population. If the authorities in Pakistan have been unable to tackle a homegrown insurgency just hours from its seat of power, prospects for their cracking down on Taliban and al-Qaeda forces along the border are grim. (See pictures of Pakistan's volatile North-West Frontier Province...
...therapeutic notion that suffering confers dignity and authority has spread just as the suffering of African Americans over generations has become universally acknowledged. Above all, black American ministers have replaced British politicians, at least in perception, as the world's most eloquent public users of the English language. Our homegrown Martin Luther King Jr. has knocked Winston Churchill off his perch as the ideal...