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...native of the Albany region, she is the daughter of two area attorneys. Her parents are divorced; her father Douglas Rutnik is an Albany lobbyist and a former public defender who had a longtime romantic relationship with powerful public-relations maven Zenia Mucha. Rutnik also has ties to many influential Republicans and Democrats in New York State and has drawn press attention for a real estate investment with New York senate leader Joe Bruno, who was indicted on Jan. 23 on charges that he defrauded the public while in office. Gillibrand's maternal grandmother Polly Noonan founded the Albany Democratic...
...friend, AbdoolKarim Vakil, and the particularly rigorous tradition of arranged marriage prevalent among the Mirpuri Pakistanis (one of the largest constituents of Bradford's Asian population) set Sardar off on investigations that always return him to the subcontinent and mostly to two episodes that have defined the region: colonial rule and partition. Time and again, Sardar deftly untangles complex knots and relationships to uncover how the enmeshment of Britain and the subcontinent had a far longer and denser history than the simplistic but commonly touted story of post-independence economic migration...
...Saudi Arabia of lithium. It's home to 73 million metric tons of lithium carbonate, more than half the world's supply. The largest single deposit is the Salar de Uyuni, a vast, 4,085-square-mile (6,575-sq-km) salt desert in the southern Potosi region that is also one of Bolivia's biggest tourist attractions...
Foreign investors will have to be sensitive to Bolivian anger and resentment about the past, however. This is hardly the first time, for example, that Bolivia's Potosi region has been eyed by the outside world for its natural riches. During the colonial era, silver from the area's prodigious mines helped fund the Spanish empire. But historically, all that wealth has left the local population, especially the indigenous, with little more than desperate poverty and early death by mining-related diseases like black lung. Another concern is the environmental impact; but lithium mining, as observed in countries with deposits...
...sudden plunge in exports has taken its toll on China's industrial heartland - southern Guangdong province. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JP Morgan in Hong Kong, believes some 60,000 businesses closed in the region, and the government estimates about 10 million migrant workers are unemployed. The downturn has put "huge stress on the job market," says Credit Suisse economist Dong Tao, which "could cause some social unrest. That's my worry...