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...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...
Scan the bare figures and China appears to be on the skids. Exports are plummeting, experts are slashing growth forecasts and unemployment could rise to its highest level since 1949, the year the People's Republic was founded. But if President Hu Jintao feels the heat, he isn't letting anyone see him sweat. Despite the massive challenges Beijing faces, the Chinese leadership seems to regard 2009 much as Michael Corleone viewed the day of his godson's baptism in The Godfather - this year, China settles all business...
...governments of how the West had failed to come to their rescue. By the end of the crisis, China, previously viewed with suspicion by its Asian neighbors, had built a reputation as a benevolent regional power. During last month's session of China's National People's Congress, President Hu said: "Challenge and opportunity always come together. Under certain conditions, one could be transformed into the other." Right now, those conditions are breaking China...
...disease—a severe form of gum disease that causes bone destruction and periodontal tissue inflammation. “This is one of the first, if not the first, study demonstrating such a significant relationship in such a large group of people,” said Frank B. Hu, professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at HSPH. The association found in this study can be of “substantial public health importance,” said Hu, who was a co-author of the paper. Monik C. Jimenez—a fifth year doctoral student at HSPH...
...part of a clampdown on such havens. China, not a member of the OECD, was stalling because of its concern that such a list might include Macau and Hong Kong, which have both recently moved to implement OECD standards. The U.S. President took Sarkozy aside, then Chinese President Hu Jintao, and finally brought them together in a private meeting at the side of the room. "If he hadn't done that, we'd still be there," remarked a White House official after the communiqué had been safely published. (See pictures of Obama in Europe...