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...using proxy servers and mirror sites outside China. But Zhou's luck ran out when he traveled to Shenyang to interview victims of a pyramid scheme involving a supposed aphrodisiac powder made from crushed ants. Victims handed over cash and were told they would get a guaranteed 30% annual return if they kept supplying the ants. Eventually, the scheme collapsed and hundreds of defrauded investors demonstrated repeatedly outside local government headquarters. After talking with some of the duped investors, Zhou was picked up by police on his way to do another interview; he spent two days and a long, long...
...return to Rambo a sign of a last-quarter-life crisis? It's less of a sign than what's under Stallone's right sleeve. Yesterday, he says, he finished his tattoo, and it's not subtle. It's a huge, color-saturated portrait of his wife surrounded by three roses (the middle name of each of his three daughters is Rose) and looked over by a tiger (apparently, Rocky was fond of tiger eyes). "When people read about this, they'll go 'Tattoo?' But after a certain age it takes on a different meaning," he says. "You get your...
...real-world example: a partnership between the French foods giant Danone and Yunus' Grameen Group to sell nutrient-enriched yogurt to poor children in Bangladesh. He calls it the "world's very first consciously designed multinational social business"?a company that doesn't insist on an ongoing return to shareholders. Whether there's enough motivation in boardrooms to make the idea grow is a big question, but there are some 100 million microborrowers around the world. So it's a nice client base...
...dialed down their hiring, sending unemployment inching up 0.3% in December. It might not sound like much, but that's 474,000 fewer people on the payrolls than the previous month--enough for the financial system that enabled this spending binge to take notice and begin the painful return to sobriety...
...Bush's lackluster tour of the Middle East, the Annapolis process will simply die a natural death. Or perhaps Damascus believes it can cut a better deal after Bush leaves office. Already there are whispers in Washington that an incoming Democratic administration might be willing to allow Syria to return to Lebanon - which it occupied until forced out in 2005 - in return for peace with Israel...