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...19th century, American railroads were the engine of rapid industrialization and growth, bringing new Americans and their attendant prosperity to far-off corners of the then-unsettled country. American passenger trains carried millions of new soldiers to their training depots and their ports of call during the two World Wars, and, until the expansion of the interstate highway system in the 1950s, rail travel remained the only reliable and affordable method for traversing the country. But, since then, American passenger rail has steadily declined in both prestige and ridership; in 1971, the federal government effectively bought out the dying industry...
...advises Domino's to create a blog on its website, where the company can highlight great deals, new marketing campaigns, and, yes, the fact that 99.9% of its employees do not spit on the food. "I don't want to overhype blogs, but they can serve as very powerful rapid response vehicles," says Blackshaw...
...should think about it," Immordino-Yang says. "We should research how these emotions develop in children and how social interaction may be changed when people are engaged in these very rapid fire networks...
...come as a surprise to no one. Despite being written by party insiders, some of the essays are critical of Beijing's current policies and of the late Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, still greatly admired on the mainland for ushering in the economic reforms that led to China's rapid growth over the past 30 years. One essay plays down Deng's role as a reformer and insists that Deng - who forced Hu Yaobang from power in 1987 for his sympathetic handling of democracy advocates' protests in December of 1986 - was nothing more than a political conservative who monopolized power...
What the Chinese government has not been able to solve because it does not have to power to is the rapid and intractable drop in exports. It shows how dependent the country is on its trade partners. With the recession in the major consuming nations deepening and signs that it may not reverse itself, China faces three more quarters of economic difficulty. Basically, the central government cannot spend its way out of its export problem...