Word: smog
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...nail house" has become a symbol of China's growth - as ubiquitous as new black Audis and smog-choked skies. It is a property whose owner refuses to make way for redevelopment, and thus sticks up like a nail among the rubble of a demolished neighborhood. As China's economy has boomed, cities have undergone rapid transformation. Old neighborhoods are torn down and rebuilt with remarkable speed. And while some homeowners come away with substantial compensation and improved accommodations when their former residences are demolished, complaints of underpayment or outright corruption are frequent. Official investigations have uncovered more than...
Those arriving in New Delhi a day early for the recent World Economic Forum India summit were greeted by a smog so dense, so noxious, that it seeped indoors, giving a brackish smell to hotel lobbies and making one wonder whether India's breakneck economic growth was going to be accompanied by the sort of pollution that made hellholes of old industrial cities such as Pittsburgh and Manchester. By the next day, thankfully, the smog had dispersed, and though that was probably because of a change in the weather, it was easy to believe that it had been blown away...
...Congratulations to the author for his brilliant articulation of what California really is. Despite the famed smog and legendary congestion, innovators find it easier to breathe and flourish in that state than anywhere else on earth. I was delighted that the article noted California's unique attitude to those who try and fail. A pat on the back for trying and having someone tell you to chalk it up to experience is much more likely to promote another, perhaps better, attempt than the scorn that failure usually attracts elsewhere. Robert James-Herbert, Ruse, Australia...
...careful, consensus-driven leadership style, delivered one of the G-20's most impressive economic growth rates this year. His anticorruption drive, which landed even his own son's father-in-law in jail, drew plaudits in a country where graft often feels as omnipresent as urban smog. Little more than a decade after Indonesia emerged from dictatorship, SBY's peaceful re-election is proof that the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation can thrive as a stable democracy. (Read "The 2009 TIME 100: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono...
...country that wins the race to develop renewable forms of energy "will be the nation that leads the global economy." That's something China's leadership heartily agrees with. China has become the world's leading producer of greenhouse gases, and many of its big cities choke on smog from cars and coal-fired power plants. But it is also a global pioneer in renewable energy. The government has mandated that by next year 3% of its power must come from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectricity, in which it is already among the world's top producers. That figure jumps...