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...July of 2002. “For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer capitalism,” writes Simpson. Extolling perfectly primped—but virulently heterosexual—British Soccer star David Beckham as the premier member of this new breed of urban chic, Simpson’s conception of the metrosexual has evolved with the times...
...Chinese maxim: Women bring disaster. But one of China's most beloved politicians today is its female Vice Premier and Health Minister. In a nation ruled by men who often seem disconnected from their 1.3 billion subjects, Wu has made it her job to care about people. Some peasants believe she is a reincarnation of the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kwanyin...
...China has suffered previous boom-and-bust cycles in its transition from communism to capitalism. In 1994, GDP growth exceeded 11% and inflation soared to 24%. To restore economic stability, the then Vice Premier and central bank governor Zhu Rongji choked off bank loans to cool runaway borrowing and spending. The subsequent slowdown threw millions of mainlanders out of work, but because China was relatively isolated from the global economy, few other countries shared the pain. Today, a sharp contraction in China would have much wider impact. The mainland is one of the world's largest manufacturing bases...
...other budget carriers, Southwest and America West, took three of the four top slots. Fourteen airlines were evaluated on services like on-time arrivals, based on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. "In the late '90s, the big airlines said to their customers, 'You have to be a premier traveler or we're not going to care about you much,'" says Wichita State marketing professor Dean Headley, who co-authored this year's report with Brent Bowen of the University of Nebraska. "[No-frills carriers] told passengers, 'We're going to get you from here to there--with your...
Brotemarkle out-dueled two of the Ivy League’s premier pitchers in Snyder and Penn’s Lindsey Parmar...