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...China the economic powerhouse it is today. Over the next six years, Seibert traveled to a dozen Chinese provinces and captured images of construction workers, waitresses and scavengers, among others, many of whom he says live a precarious existence due to hazardous working conditions or shady employers. Seibert's strength is in his long-form documentary storytelling, such as when he follows a Mr. Zhou, a solar-panel-factory worker, on a 35-hour trek from his workplace in Guangzhou to his hometown in rural Sichuan province. (See pictures of China's internal migrants...
...strength of the two frontrunners in the 2009 Undergraduate Council presidential election ensures that Harvard students get capable leadership no matter who wins. But the dedicated approach and remarkable track record of one ticket ultimately sets it apart...
Boston College coach Alison Kulik also emphasized the strength of Harvard’s defense and Mann, who only allowed one goal out of 20 shots. Kulik’s goalkeeper, Jillian Mastroianni, had zero saves...
...doubters. "I've seen similar sorts of stories about 20 times this year," O'Neill said last week during an interview on Bloomberg TV. "These are generally written by people that obviously just don't follow closely or study China." He maintained that, if anything, China's economic strength is being underestimated. "The latest data we got earlier this week, in addition to the month before, suggest that GDP was actually stronger than 8.9% in the third quarter," he said...
Such exuberance is both good news and bad for China's leadership. The revival of the real estate industry is a key reason that China's economy is emerging from the global recession with such strength. But frothy increases in home prices are also fueling concerns that the property boom could turn into an unstable and dangerous bubble. According to government data, property prices in 70 cities rose 3.9% in October from a year earlier - the largest increase in 14 months. In 20 of the cities, prices jumped more than 1% from the month before. The phenomenon isn't limited...