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...million Value of art auctioned last year by Sotheby's and Christie's in Paris $800 million Value of art auctioned in Asia in 2007. On the strength of artists like Cai Guoqiang, whose gunpowder-on-paper abstracts sold for $9.5 million in November, China has passed France as the world's third largest art market according to a recent economic study...
...returned home and formed families that then fanned out to the suburbs. The comparison is not exact, of course, but it's compelling enough. The effects of China's suburbanization are just beginning to ripple across Chinese society and the global economy. It's easy to understand the persistent strength in commodity prices - steel, copper, lumber, oil - when you realize that in Emerald Riverside construction crews used more than three tons of steel in the houses and nearly a quarter of a ton of copper wiring. There are 35 housing developments either just finished or still under construction...
...aiming to do. The coaches at BlueStreak Sports Training in Stamford, Conn., for example, assess each athlete's risk for knee injury, paying particular attention to girls, who are six times as likely as boys to injure their knees for a number of reasons, including basic anatomy, muscle strength and hormonal differences. The most vulnerable athletes are then required to wear a bracelet while training as a warning to coaches to take it slow...
...Davos. But Phil just [said], "Let me tell you why I'm for McCain." Pure and simple. He didn't persuade or arm-twist. I don't think Senator McCain ought to do anything but be who he is and let the chips fall. Because that's his strength. And if he starts doing anything that appears to be pandering to people, then he's going to lose, I think some - I don't know, respect - but some people are going to question it. Because he's never pandered. At least his image is that he's never pandered...
...quest for the crown looked all but hopeless as the Crimson (9-11-3) were playing against a two-goal deficit with just 8:46 left in regulation. But in that moment of greatest uncertainty, Harvard’s resiliency as a team proved to be its defining strength as the Crimson rose its level of play to the stakes of the finals. “We talked from the outset that we needed to compete to the end,” head coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “Sometimes...