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...only local punters whose money is riding on Shang's efforts. Thanks to China's commitments to the World Trade Organization, its stock market is slowly opening up to foreigners too. Overseas firms won permission in November to start forming joint-venture fund management companies, and others will begin underwriting Chinese companies listed on the country's two bourses, in Shanghai and Shenzhen. These foreigners will be looking to the CSRC's new chief to protect their investments before ponying up their highly desired capital...
...leaving that he told the officers that they were in a “contaminated area” and that the soldiers must wear their protective suits for the drive out. Picou later came down with radiation poisoning, experiencing the classic symptoms including loss of bowel control, joint pain, fatigue and thyroid failure. The Department of Veterans Affairs doctors attributed her sickness to a “change of diet” after returning from Iraq and insisted that her radiation exposure was perfectly normal. They failed to explain how her feet had grown from size seven to size nine...
...played since a 9-2 win over Dartmouth on Nov. 9—the first weekend of the season. In that game, she suffered a Bennett’s fracture, a fracture-dislocation in which the first bone of the thumb breaks while the triangular bone at the joint is held intact by ligaments. It’s the most common kind of thumb fracture and it often occurs in basketball, skiing and fist fights...
...Before a joint session of the legislature gathered in the House chamber, he delivered a 15-minute inaugural address that shied away from specific policy proposals and focused on his plans to fashion a “lighter, more agile bureaucracy...
...accused U.S. Peace Corps volunteers of illicitly "collecting information on the sociopolitical and economic situation in Russia," singling out one staffer for entering a closed zone on the Chinese border and a volunteer for trying to establish inappropriate contacts. Even in a world where Russia and the U.S. wage joint battle against terrorism, cold war suspicions die hard...