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...because China's 7.1% second-quarter GDP expansion was due in part to a burst of bank lending, which was up 31% in May and 34% in June from year-ago levels. To date, cumulative loans outstanding have topped $1.1 trillion, far higher than the government's $735 billion target for the year. Most of the money is aimed at funding infrastructure projects under Beijing's two-year, $585 billion stimulus package. But according to government researchers, about $170 billion in bank loans were channeled into the stock market from January to May, which partly explains the 87% rise...
...night Doc's ex-girlfriend Shasta shows up on his doorstep asking for help. It appears that her new squeeze, the powerful real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann, may be the target of a kidnapping scheme. When Mickey disappears - and Shasta too - the lovelorn Doc, with quantities of superior weed, plunges into a many-layered plot. It involves, among other things, the LAPD, organized crime, disorganized crime, a lecherous dentist and the Golden Fang, which is sometimes a mysterious schooner, sometimes a no-nonsense drug cartel. Pynchonesque multitudes crowd into the picture. Tight-lipped federales, stoner lawyers, ex-con neo-Nazis...
...Microsoft isn't quite so coy about the competition. Google was the target from Day One. "When we developed Bing, we said, 'O.K., let's really understand the market leader,' " says Danielle Tiedt, general manager of Microsoft's online-audience business group. "What are they doing well, what are they not doing well, and how can we differentiate ourselves...
...regard to stabilizing and turning around our economy, with regard to the President and Vice President for their efforts," Corzine said at the event. "In fact, we feel very good about what's going on here, saving and creating jobs ... We are well along our way of meeting the target of the 100,000 jobs created and saved in New Jersey...
...have been a case of hitting the target but missing the opportunity. Reports last week said Saad bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's fourth son and a midranking al-Qaeda operative, was killed by a recent CIA Predator strike. But six years ago, the U.S. had an opportunity to get him alive - and lost it when the Bush Administration decided to pull away from cooperation with Iran. (Read "Obama's Unlikely Ally: Iran Signs On to Afghan Plan...