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...government is committed to freeing up discretionary spending. Earlier this year, Beijing vowed to double the size of the national social security fund, to $147 billion by 2010, and to steadily increase it from there. "This," says CASS economist Wang, "is like turning around an ocean liner. But at least we've started to turn...
...Motherless Children How ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers you profile in "The Motherless Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced...
...Ling Woo Liu correctly points out that most of the time, spoiled kids grow up to be dependent on their family's wealth. This is unacceptable in today's society; everyone should start working to earn their own money and thus create more "working" brains. This in turn will help the development of countries. Rami El Chamaa, Beirut
...Dream It's Over It wasn't meant to turn out this way. The new Russia was supposed to replace poverty and money worries and grumbling mothers with places like Rusfinance, a Moscow call center that transports you from the gritty streets and auto-parts stores outside into a world of cheery beige furnishings, swirling red-and-gold patterns on the walls and easy credit. Here, 450 people - mainly women in their 20s - sit side by side in booths and field calls from Russians wanting to borrow money. Most of the time the answer they give is a resounding...
...properties that make them more comparable to materials such as stainless steel and aluminum, which can be even pricier. Those attributes give architects, engineers and builders far greater flexibility to use concrete's long-lasting thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations. That in turn contributes to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete that American architect Richard Meier used for the Jubilee Church in Rome, for example, contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean while also destroying pollutants around it, like car exhaust...