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...faced by a yawning chasm between urban and rural incomes and rising unrest in the countryside, the Chinese leadership has taken a cautious middle road, stopping short of allowing outright sale and purchase of rural land and instead approving the trading of the peasants' leases and extending terms beyond 30 years. That amounts to the right to sell in all but name and potentially frees up hundreds of millions of rural Chinese - until now second-class citizens in their own country - to head for the big city. China's urban dwellers may well wonder how they will cope as hordes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has plenty of incentive to push his OPEC colleagues to vote for production cuts: If falling prices force his government to cut its heavy gasoline subsidies, he won't help his chances of reelection in a tough presidential race next June. "There is a lot of popular unrest when they cut subsidies or put on gas quotas," says Robert Johnston, Director of Energy for the Eurasia Group in Washington. For similar reasons, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wants OPEC to cut production by about 1 million barrels a day, warning that his country would face dire economic problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC Wants You to Pay More for Gas | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...slated to play in a nearly identical concert, but the performance was cancelled due to international unrest sparked by North Korea’s first nuclear tests...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Koh Entertains in North Korea | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...slated to play in a nearly identical concert to today’s, but the performance was cancelled due to international unrest sparked by North Korea’s first nuclear tests...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Koh To Play in North Korea | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...world became very concerned about the violence in Kenya and wanted a negotiated settlement, because they realized the outcome was not what Kenyans voted for," says Odinga adviser Salim Lone, commenting on Corsi's alleged Obama-Odinga-Islamist nexus. "Raila became Prime Minister because of the view that the unrest would continue. Islam had nothing to do with it, and in any event, the violence in Muslim areas was minimal as compared to the others. It has absolutely no basis in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corsi in Kenya: Obama's Nation Boots Obama Nation Author | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

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