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...China's efforts to censor and monitor the web represent a challenge to the uncontested hegemony of Western business and to the dominance of Silicon Valley in the world of new technologies. That story - of China's emergence and a burgeoning world of hungry entrepreneurs not willing to play second fiddle to America - is the backstory for the Google imbroglio and one that is about to assume center stage...
Nonetheless, even if foreigner investors' role in America's credit boom and bust is debatable, what's beyond doubt is that this aspect of the crisis is not getting as much attention as, say, bankers and their bonuses. On Thursday, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission wrapped up its second day of hearings. Global imbalances is one of the 22 areas that the panel is supposed to investigate as a possible cause of the credit crunch. But in two days of hearings, which included testimony from top financial executives, economists, analysts, regulators and a hedge fund manager, there wasn...
Paul R. Nowicki, who came in second in the 2007 race, told The Crimson last week that he would not seek the seat again...
...Sunshine State has a $103 billion stake in agriculture, second only to tourism. At this make-or-break stage in the state's growing season, there are $300 million worth of crops in the ground, on the trees or in the ponds. (Florida is also the second largest supplier of tropical fish.) On Jan. 10, the Storys, who own one of the largest grower and grove caretaker companies in the county, had $500,000 in potential citrus loss on the line: the fruit's juice sacs start to rupture if they are exposed to freezing temperature for too long...
...when the temperature read 25°F (-4°C), Kyle yanked an early-season orange from a tree. He sliced the top third and the juice ran freely, making him think they may have squeaked through another night. But with a second cut through the middle, Kyle shook his head. "This is not good," he said, running his knife through slush, as it's called in the industry...