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...railway station toward Solitary Beauty Peak and Folding Brocade Hill - both featuring prominently on tourist itineraries led by flag-waving, fact-quacking guides. But Zhongshan itself is carpeted with an enticing parade of hawkers: barbecued-meat vendors alternate with bootblacks banging their brushes together to attract custom, grizzled farmers hunch over mounds of dried persimmons, and pickled-vegetable sellers rub shoulders with eco-entrepreneurs whose handwritten signboards tout for secondhand MP3 players...
Gates has tangled with the Air Force before. Shortly after arriving at the Pentagon in late 2006, he pushed to boost production of unmanned aircraft for use in intelligence work, only to run into the Air Force's long-standing love of manned fighters. But Gates' hunch was vindicated in Afghanistan and Iraq, where cheaper, unmanned Predator and Reaper drones have been flying around the clock but expensive F-22s have yet to appear. Air Force Major General Charles Dunlap Jr. has written that drones are "game-changing" because of their unprecedented ability to loiter for hours, waiting...
...American team placed sixth, tying its best-ever result from 2003. Norway, Sweden and France - the teams that always do well - maintained their hold. As his girlfriend, Kate Laughlin, waited with tears in her eyes, Hollingsworth said he was proud of his team but had a hunch why they had not placed higher: "What we do is more modern. It's not in the style of Bocuse d'Or. American food is a little more refreshing...
...were awarded "too readily." Princeton in 2004 became the only Ivy League school to adopt a grade-deflation policy, including quotas for A's. To skeptics like Gibson, grades should be guides to help students see where they can improve, not rubber stamps to confirm a smart kid's hunch that he or she is smart or gold stars on a résumé. "Grades don't only exist to be reported to college-admissions officers," he says. Gibson also rejects the Fairgrade argument that adjusting the standards would improve the dropout rate among those at risk of failing...
...expect in macro terms in the medium run. Indeed, Paul Tsang, senior vice president at Polaris Securities in Hong Kong, says he expects the rebound to continue as investors wait to see how the proposed bailout plans affect financial institutions, but that longer-term predictions remain murky. "My initial hunch is consolidation will continue for one or two weeks," he says. "After two weeks, we'll see another change, either up or down." - With reporting by Peter Ritter / Hong Kong (Click here to see photos of how London faces painful and uncertain times...