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...foreign business community in China has deep respect and affection for the Chinese people and their hard-earned success. But more than a few foreign business leaders are asking themselves if they have been bamboozled by the system. Multinationals have been solid citizens in China, handing over heaps of capital, technology, training, source code, best practices and proprietary products to joint-venture partners they were forced into bed with. They have funded schools, orphanages, disaster reconstruction, overseas scholarships and all manner of poverty-alleviation programs. But now that the China market matters more to them, it appears that China couldn...
...have a really solid foil squad,” said sophomore co-captain Noam Mills, who went 4-2 on the day for the epee squad...
...After a solid half-hour, he gave up the stage to Bill O'Reilly, but not before calling the audience to join him at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28 to show Washington that something needs to be done. The words resonated with Scott Hand, 39, a delivery driver from Rochester: "I'm on edge. It's time to go to Washington and stomp my foot on the ground and say, 'Hey, quit spendin' my money, our money...
What Barber's expedition further discovered was that some Arctic sea ice is not only whisper thin, but that even in places with thick ice, the ice was not as solid as satellites had indicated. That thick ice was still there, but largely as individual chunks covered with a veneer of new ice that masked their true nature. "It's significant and it's surprising," says Maslanik. "I wouldn't have expected that the ice would be as rotten and weak as what David Barber's team found...
...bank can make mistakes too, but that doesn't mean you tear down the bank. And for all the attention paid to the IPCC's mistakes, the panel's overall conclusion that global temperatures are rising and that man-made greenhouse-gas emissions are the key cause remains as solid as science can be. There is no debate about the core urgency, says Peter Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists...