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...restive farmers, who have largely been bypassed by China's economic boom. Currently, farmers are entitled to the proceeds from their sales but do not own the land--a system easily exploited by corrupt officials and developers. Beijing hopes the reforms--enabling farmers to lease, swap, subcontract and transfer land-use rights--will help double the average disposable income among the nation's 730 million rural residents, to more than...
...part of the strategic planning process, the hospital system will close the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center in December, said Health Alliance spokesman Doug M. Bailey. Over the next three months, the health center will transfer its roughly 100 patients to other clinics...
...Sadr, and the anti-Qaeda alliance the U.S. forged with the Sunni insurgents of the Awakening Movement. Deep distrust remains between the Awakening Movement, many of whose members were aligned with the Saddam regime, and the Shi'ite dominated Maliki government. The recent move by the U.S. to transfer control, and responsibility for paying the wages, of the Awakening militias to Maliki's central government is likely to exacerbate those tensions...
...improved in the G1. I thought I would miss Apple's iTunes, but downloading music on the G1, from Amazon's MP3 store, worked just fine and none of the songs were copy protected. And I definitely did not miss having to sync my phone with a computer to transfer applications, download songs or update my operating system - something you often wind up doing with the iPhone. The G1, in contrast, is its own self-contained mobile device...
Stay Calm, Says God All four interviewees said the very act of prayer (appropriately) transfers some anxiety onto the divinity. "The prayer itself is a form of power," says Ali. "We are not frustrated or losing our temper or losing our dignity or feeling lost, because we are close to God." Philip Yancey, the author of numerous Evangelical Christian books, including most recently Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?, cites Psalm 46, a prayer listing a number of catastrophes but concluding, "Be still and know that I am God." Addressing God, Yancey says, allows us to "bring our fears...