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...Today, Wang, who has chosen a Western name, Colleen, works in a gleaming office tower in the manufacturing center of Guangzhou in southern China. At age 37, she is the very image of a polished chief executive officer, right down to her Milano briefcase. Wang is the founder of an advertising agency that employs nearly 70 people in three Chinese cities and counts as customers major multinational companies including Procter & Gamble and Sony Ericsson. Like so many of her generation, Wang never looked back after racing through the door Deng's economic reforms opened, and her accomplishments show...
...bigger if - should he become the Senate appointee, he will have to fight hard, and fast, to establish himself as an effective legislator. After 13 years in Congress, Jackson has had only one real signature issue: building a new airport on the far edges of Chicago's southern suburbs. It has hardly been a success. While the proposal appeases many of his constituents in suburban Cook County, who view a new airport as a potential economic catalyst for the city, residents of the largely agricultural communities that lie outside his district, where the airport would be built, oppose the idea...
...Things have gotten a bit hairy," admitted British Lieut. Colonel Graeme Armour as we sat in a dusty, bunkered NATO fortress just outside the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, a deadly piece of turf along Afghanistan's southern border with Pakistan. A day earlier, two Danish soldiers had been killed and two Brits seriously wounded by roadside bombs. The casualties were coming almost daily...
...Factory closures in the manufacturing regions of southern China are now a daily event, and local governments have stepped in to pay the wages of some workers left jobless after bosses have fled. Courts in the Guangdong province toy hub of Dongguan are reportedly working without days off to handle the crush of bankruptcies and unpaid wage cases. Demonstrations by terminated workers have spread fears of economic related social unrest, a key concern for the central government...
...West and Zimbabweans are unable to muster the power to depose Mugabe, what of his African neighbors? The two main African organizations with leverage over events in Zimbabwe are the African Union, which has peacekeepers in Darfur and Somalia, and the Southern African Development Community, which has overseen the stalled power-sharing talks between Mugabe and the MDC. The African country with the most power to affect change in Zimbabwe is South Africa, which supplies Zimbabwe's electricity and is the landlocked country's main link with the outside world. But political infighting in the ruling African National Congress...