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...hits you when you enter Little Sadr City is the smell. The odor of open gutters, animal pens and trash fires fill a thin haze that floats through the neighborhood, where posters of Sadr hang on many buildings. When U.S. patrols rumble into the area in armored vehicles, pigeons soar as lookouts signal their comrades as to the Americans' whereabouts. Gunfire often follows. Typically militia fighters will fire a volley of shots at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces near a U.S. patrol. They may linger to fire a few more shots at U.S. troops arriving...
...They tied their own hands behind their back," says Christopher Carson, former ceo of the European arm of drinks firm Constellation, who played a key role in bringing Australian wine to the U.K. Over the course of 15 years, he watched the market share of Australian wines soar from about 1% to more than 21% now - five percentage points ahead of the French - as British drinking habits shifted. Wine has now overtaken beer as the nation's most popular drink, driven in part by supermarket chains such as Tesco and Sainsbury that have made it affordable. Pubs are getting...
Still, the corners of Horn’s novel are nailed down solidly enough to make up for any rough edges. “The World to Come,” as it reaches for the heavens, may not soar toward profundity with quite the ease that many of its loquacious characters do; but it is Horn’s thoughtfully arranged, vibrantly written examination of people in their private times of crisis that makes her book memorable...
...principal air pollutants by half since 1970, despite a 42% increase in energy consumption. But even with mandated controls, old-fashioned pulverized- coal plants still spew nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide (think acid rain) as well as toxic mercury. Carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming, would soar. Shareholder activists are increasingly aggressive about demanding an accounting when companies like TXU, which had 2005 earnings of $1.7 billion, stick to old coal methods. "TXU," says Leslie Lowe, program director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, "is looking through the rearview mirror...
...going to get old before it gets rich. "China has both a pension problem and a demographic problem," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University. Existing pension systems are inadequate and cover only 13% of the population; with the number of Chinese over 60 expected to soar from nearly 140 million now to 250 million by 2020, the financial burden is only worsening. In that context, the allegations against Chen "are very serious if they are true," says a former economic-planning official. "[Pension reform] is one of the most important things the government is trying...