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...country depicted these days as an economic superpower, the storms were a reminder that for all its gleaming new airports and 2.1 million miles (3.4 million km) of highways, China remains a developing nation with vulnerable, overtaxed infrastructure. Officials said the snow caused more than 100,000 buildings to collapse. Some 6,000 vehicles carrying 20,000 passengers were stranded on a highway linking the provinces of Anhui and Zhejiang. A rail line that serves as the main link between Guangzhou in the south and the capital Beijing in the north was disabled when heavy snow and ice in Hunan...
...Inflation Factor Storm-related economic problems are likely to be temporary, but they are still worrisome because the nation is already facing the possibility of reduced growth if the U.S. slumps into a recession. In China, "risks to growth also inevitably mean risks to [social] stability," says Patrick Horgan, China managing director for Washington, D.C.-based consultants APCO Worldwide. "On a big scale like this, it's no longer just about the weather but about the ability of the government to govern." And if you had to pick one area of the economy that scares the authorities in China...
...Sukarno's death. Nobody talked about it, because he had disappeared from public view. Nobody knew where he was; it was not even clear where he had died, or how long he had been ill. The media never ran stories on him. Sukarno, revolutionary leader, founder of the nation, President for life, just vanished...
...McCain, Huckabee and a nation of disconcerted Republican voters now threaten to reformulate that coalition. Romney is certainly not a lifelong member of the old conservative movement. But as it stands, he may be the only thing left to hold it together...
...hoping for progress. As Iraq metastasized into a civil war, he began to vote for a responsible withdrawal. That Bill Clinton would turn this into an attack against Obama was almost as absurd as Clinton's turning Obama's statement that Ronald Reagan had changed the trajectory of the nation-and that, for a time, the Republicans had been the party of ideas-into a claim that Obama thought gop ideas were better. Clinton, after all, had said the same sort of things about Republicans in 1992. And he had been tougher on Democrats, decrying "the brain-dead politics...