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...NASDAQ back then. The companies offering their shares to the public in China are not small, technology oriented start ups. They are, for the most part, big state owned companies - oil and gas, mining, banks - most of which have already gone public in Hong Kong, seeking to tap the broader international capital markets. China's two main equity markets - for so called "A-shares" - remain sequestered from the outside world, available only to Chinese investors paying in Renminbi...
...surveys, think the country is on the wrong track. About two-thirds of the public disapprove of the job performance of President Bush, and an even higher number disdain Congress. The media are excited about the prospect of a wealthy businessman running for President as an independent who could tap into broad public disgruntlement with the partisan politicians in Washington...
...Steady gunfire continues to rattle the metal gate of the madrasah. Snipers are perched on the roof of buildings surrounding the complex. Outside, the male students are fighting with the rangers. Inside, women fill buckets of water at the tap and pass them, fireman style, out the gate to the men. They hurl bamboo staves, broom handles and water bottles over the complex wall. The bottles return, empty, and the women fill them up again and toss them back. Aman disappears out the gate. "I will do everything in my power to protect my madrasah," she says. "I am ready...
Back in the early 80s, the hit series Dallas kept the nation guessing with its season-ending cliffhanger Who Shot J.R.? Now, with a film version of Dallas starring John Travolta in development, the more appropriate question could be, Where to Shoot J.R.? If the filmmakers hope to tap into a new $22 million Texas fund aimed at boosting the state's film and computer-game industry, they'll have to agree to a controversial caveat, which denies support to any creative project that "portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion...
...nest egg embodied in Sheetrock that you can touch and dirt that can't be outsourced to Mumbai. Property fever is in our blood: this country made its fortune in sweet real estate deals--a Louisiana Purchase here, a few trinkets for Manhattan there--and these HGTV shows tap into something primal...