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...Sagra felt the pinch months ago. "Construction started to really slow in February or March, with the subprime crisis in the U.S.," says Duque, "and that's when the brick warehouses started to fill up." Many brickworks in the area closed for several months over the summer. Most in La Sagra have suspended workers temporarily in a program negotiated with the unions that allows employees to receive unemployment benefits for three months, and then guarantees their return to work. With recession looming, Duque worries about what lies ahead. "That's when we're going to start seeing factories closing...
...Democrats and were hit by a wave of retirements. What makes the turnabout more striking is that the Democratic challengers aren't particularly strong candidates. Several are inexperienced; others are more liberal than their states. Many seemed almost struck dumb when, as gasoline prices soared this summer, Republicans hit on the suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer...
...China, which had led disarmament negotiations among the U.S., North Korea and its regional neighbors. Meanwhile, officials in Pyongyang released a purportedly recent photograph of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, in an attempt to refute rumors of his failing health. But experts in South Korea and the U.S. say summer foliage in the background indicates that the pictures are months old, raising further questions about the reclusive leader, who has not been seen in public since...
...Beijing Clearing the Air, Again For two months this summer, the Chinese capital saw some of its clearest skies in a decade, thanks to antipollution measures in place for the Olympics and Paralympics. But when restrictions were lifted Sept. 21, pollution returned. Beijing has now reinstated Olympic traffic rules that ban each of the city's 3.5 million cars one day a week, on the basis of license-plate number. The plan may take 800,000 cars off the road...
...Evidence that the support the Bruni sisters added - aided by wider French public opinion sympathetic to Petrella's cause - had begun softening Sarkozy's position became clear as the summer advanced. Even as he wrote Italian authorities in July promising to deliver Petrella once her French administrative appeals had been exhausted, Sarkozy urged clemency in light of the prisoner's perilous health - a suggestion swiftly rebuffed by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome. Less than a month later, a French appeals court ordered Petrella's release from custody at the request of French justice officials...