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...uninitiated, the Web may seem like some sort of a strange inside joke. Chuck Norris is more popular there than he ever was offline. Rick Astley is prone to popping up at random moments. And the cats. Always with the cats...
...brute force of the government, which is directing bank loans to state-owned companies, which in turn have been building everything from high-speed rail networks to new highways and bridges across China. But economists were quick to note that other sectors of the economy besides construction now seem to be joining the party. In particular, property investment rose by nearly 18% in the quarter, well above what many economists had expected...
Four months on, the CIA is indeed under siege from bellicose Democrats, but Panetta's vaunted skills seem to have done little to soften the blow. Some at agency headquarters in Langley, Va., now say he hasn't done enough to defend the CIA - and may have actually given its enemies some ammunition. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...Justice Sonia Sotomayor would make: that judges should rule not from passion or personal bias but with reason and precedent. As she attempts to be confirmed, Sotomayor's greatest asset has proved to be her methodical demeanor, making the hearings reasonably free of passion, and her future, it would seem, free of much doubt...
...month and, in the past few weeks, prohibiting the possession and production of pornography. Observers have expressed concern that such decisions are a sop to retrograde social forces that oppose liberalization and have the support of the generally conservative Ukrainians. With a presidential election scheduled for Jan. 17, politicians seem to be on the lookout for ways to give themselves a boost in the polls. "[They] are trying to make an impression on society by using the most extreme methods," says Taras Karasiychuk, director of the Gay Alliance of Ukraine. "It's more populism than a desire to protect morals...