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Still, the Chongqing experiment appears to be working. Prosperity is evident both in the factories and the city at large. Indeed, some ordinary residents have become quite wealthy. Kang Gomin, 36, operates two outdoor noodle shops at a market north of the Jialing River, where 1,300 farmers sell their produce. Says Kang: "I got the idea to open a restaurant when I realized that the people who bring their goods here cannot go back to their houses to eat their meals." When his first shop began to prosper, he opened a second...
...grew up in a comfortable merchant family that was religious but not rigidly so. After his son graduated from Jordan's Mu'tah University, Ra'ed's father set him up with a law office in Amman, but in three years the practice failed to prosper. In 1999, his family says, Ra'ed spent six months as an unpaid intern at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Amman, working with a legal-protection unit to help Iraqis fleeing Saddam Hussein's regime. When his father questioned the lack of salary, Ra'ed replied that...
...simply can't explain Africa's prolonged economic crisis. The claim that Africa's corruption is the basic source of the problem does not withstand serious scrutiny. During the past decade I witnessed how relatively well-governed countries in Africa, such as Ghana, Malawi, Mali and Senegal, failed to prosper, whereas societies in Asia perceived to have extensive corruption, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan, enjoyed rapid economic growth...
They got two, when Lions cornerback Prosper Nwokocha intercepted Schires twice in the game’s final two minutes to send Harvard home in dazed defeat...
...reported in the New York Times, a videotape of the execution in Fallujah last month of Muhammad Fawazi, an Egyptian believed by his killers to have been aiding the Americans, shows an insurgent standing over Fawazi, quoting verses from the Koran. "He who will abide by the Koran will prosper, he who offends against it will get the sword," the man says, just before two others force Fawazi to the ground and sever his head...