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...this "great reversal," Beijing's Xiushui Market, a thriving shopping area popular with tourists, was effectively expropriated by the city. The entrepreneurial founder of Kelon, China's most successful refrigerator maker, had his company seized in a backdoor takeover by local officials who then ran it into the ground. Land grabs by officials intent on real estate development soared. Rural credit cooperatives backed away from entrepreneurial finance and morphed into "policy pawns and cashiers of local government." The government abandoned attempts to develop village-level democracy and instead strengthened the Communist Party in the villages. And finally, fiscal and administrative...
...Most U.S. Treasury Secretaries come to the job after long careers on Wall Street (Paulson, Robert Rubin), in industry (John Snow, Paul O'Neill) or in politics (Lloyd Bentsen). Geithner, born 14 days after Obama, will, by contrast, be one of the youngest Treasury Secretaries ever, and he will land in the office at one of the most critical junctures in U.S. economic history. But his elevation to the top job at Treasury has long been expected. Geithner has been doing older people's jobs for years. I first met him 18 years ago, when we were both based...
...that about 440 lb. (200 kg) of nitrogen fertilizer is generally needed to grow 5 tons (5,000 kg) of maize, but the average African farmer can afford only 8 lb. of fertilizer. We can also work on safeguarding the degraded soils of Africa, where almost 55% of the land is unsuitable for any kind of cultivated agriculture. Help is on the way: the African Soil Information Service is launching a real-time digital map of sub-Saharan Africa's soils, which should allow farmers and policymakers to make better use of the continent's agricultural resources. "Farmers need...
...began its military operation is troubling. "Learning how to navigate this potentially dangerous new twist in human interaction is complicated, particularly with regard to issues of security," King says. According to Lea Bishop Shaver, a lecturer at Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely results in prosecution. "To trigger criminal prosecution, the threat has to be a serious one," Shaver says...
...latest Israeli air strikes. In a matter of days, or hours, the reservists could be ordered into the war zone. It is not something they relish. But, they say, Israel's security is under threat and must be defended. "We have nowhere else to go. Even if our land is burning, it's still ours," says a soft-spoken reservist named Noam, a TV producer in civilian life. He tells me: "Do me a favor, OK? Tell your readers that we're just normal guys caught in an impossible situation...