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...husband Todd arrives with great promise - he 'roared' into her life in a Mustang - but then largely disappears. Other things missing: No dissection or prognosis of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq (though her eldest son is a veteran), no Iran, Israel, China or Russia. No race relations, Hurricane Katrina or Bush policies, either." (Read "The Rogue Returns: On the Road with Sarah Palin...
...free-trade zone, similar to the European Union, straddling the Asia-Pacific region. Proposed by APEC's Business Advisory Council, this zone would include most of Asia (but not India) and a sliver of Central and South America, as well as big non-Asian economies like the U.S., Russia and Canada. If all of APEC's member countries participated - a big if - its combined annual GDP would be $37 trillion, 21/2 times that of the E.U., the world's largest economic bloc in terms of combined output, according to the International Monetary Fund...
...wares: posters of the country's recently re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The hawking of new merchandise in some of the world's worst gridlock is a fitting metaphor for a country that hopes to add a second I to the so-called BRIC emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Just as SBY's second five-year term will draw to a close in 2014 - by which time he has vowed at least 7% economic growth, up from the 4.5% estimated for this year - urban planners fear that traffic in Jakarta will grind to a halt unless...
...almost as badly as Brown, has previously argued in favor of the tax. Look beyond that, though, and support for the measure starts to wane. The levy is "not something we're prepared to support," U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in response to Brown's call. Officials from Russia, China and the European Central Bank also shied away from...
...biggest issue is the fact that they are still planning on patenting in the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—and that is problematic,” said Jillian L. Irwin ’11, a member of Harvard UAEM. “For us, the challenge is to ensure that they are not putting patents [on the drugs] and that there is a strategy in place for poor people to get them...