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...blazing GDP growth of 9.4% this year moderates to 8% in 2005, as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicts, the country is now a permanent major player in the global competition for oil. "More than a billion Chinese are joining the oil market," says Bo Lin, an energy specialist at the Asian Development Bank. "How can prices go down...
...says one Russian special-forces officer who fought against them during the first Chechen war. Unusually for the time, they were also high tech. "The first thing we did each night when we pitched camp was to set up our computers and sat phones," says Jamal, a former explosives specialist for Khattab. Basayev, Jamal recalls, liked to read on the Web. Basayev is coy about possible connections with al-Qaeda now. He has adopted a cell-like structure for his network of fighters, and his men include a sprinkling of foreign mujahedin from the Middle East and Europe...
...voting blocs are up for grabs abroad. According to pollsters, the 470,000 military personnel overseas tend to vote Republican. But soldiers in Wiesbaden, Germany, from the U.S. Army's First Armored Division that served in Iraq, may not be leaning heavily toward Bush. Loading groceries into her car, Specialist Kathleen Randolph recounts a long year in Iraq that ended in February and declares she has "no faith" in Bush. She is tilting toward selecting Kerry when she returns her ballot. Whatever the outcome, at least she'll have done her duty...
BORN to PRIVATE FIRST CLASS LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, U.S. soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs; a son; in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated...
...three bought a World War II-era tableting machine and found (via a Google search) a freelancing flavor specialist who had crafted the flavors behind Lifesavers for forty years. Thus, Oral Fixation Mints were born...