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...worth about $2.8 billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University, his boyish good looks hardly fit the profile, and as a result he's attained rock-star status in China, particularly among female Netizens (even if he is happily married and the father of three young daughters...
...takes earnest effort and several months' time, even in better times than these; many of the "lower-paying, less desirable jobs" she cites are passed up because they will not support a household. Extending jobless benefits would not "be reinforcing that misery." No money coming in at all would result in even more misery...
...haven’t done that in 20 years,” said Nordic coach Chris City ’94. “That’s an outstanding result...
...failings could have been a decades-old evacuation policy advocated by the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) known as 'stay or go.' The policy encourages individuals confronted with bushfires to leave early, or stay behind and defend their property, with the reasoning that last-minute evacuations result in deaths...
What made the study possible in the first place was the fact that pretty much none of the forest in this part of the U.S. is virgin; it's been cleared for agriculture at various times, and then allowed to regrow in patches. The result: individual stands of similar trees ranging from about 225 years old to just five. "You could do this experiment by measuring a single stand of trees as long as possible," says Parker, "but a scientific career lasts only a few percent of the life of a tree." This way, he explains, you have a snapshot...