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...biggest challenge may be going national without losing the spirit of the small town that got the company started. The folks back in Popcorn are watching...
...their first feedlot outside Hohhot, Inner Mongolia's capital, partly because of the local government's aggressive pro-investment policies. Among other things, officials helped the company find land and provided introductions to potential business partners. Ultimately, though, it came down to the fact that Hohhot is a cow town. Two of China's biggest dairies, Mengniu and Yili, have headquarters in the area, and buy milk from thousands of farmers who raise dairy cows in their front yards. There are more than a million cows around Hohhot; the bustling city is plastered with garish advertisements for yogurt...
...some members of the governing Labour Party, which convened on Sept. 23-27 in Bournemouth, a town on England's southwest coast, are disappointed. Drink was taken in copious quantities, and the weather put on quite a show: there was sunshine, dramatic cloudbursts and even a rainbow over the convention center as Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his speech. Yet something was missing: the chance to blow off steam by trading insults or even blows with colleagues. An unfamiliar spirit of universal amity took the edge off debates that in earlier years might have degenerated into cathartic screaming matches. Sheltering...
...world's a stage when the General Assembly comes to town, and Ahmadinejad strutted and fretted plenty. He was snubbed first by the city of New York when he proposed laying a wreath at ground zero. No can do, police said; too big a security risk, which was rather delicately put, given how revolted New Yorkers were by the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground. Next came Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, who managed to outrage just about everyone either for inviting Ahmadinejad to speak or for insulting him before he had a chance...
That's what the U.S. and the world's other big economies did during the 25 years after World War II. The Bretton Woods system, named after the New Hampshire resort town where the agreements were drawn up, brought unprecedented growth in global prosperity by bringing order to financial markets that depression and war had turned upside down...