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...heart of the city street by street displayed mesmerizing combat capability, bringing to bear withering firepower from land and air against which the those insurgents who stood and fought had no chance of surviving. U.S. forces retook the city at a cost of 38 casualties against the upward of 1,000 insurgents they claim to have killed. The number of civilian casualties remains unknown - the U.S. military and Iraqi interim government insists the number is negligible, but media sources suggest there may have been substantial numbers of Iraqi civilians killed and wounded, whose fate will be known once the fighting...
ZOLLARS There's been continuous upward pressure on wages and benefits. Our average driver makes $70,000 a year and has good benefits. Wages are going up 5% a year for union drivers and twice that fast on the nonunion side...
...Though the criticism isn't entirely fair, the fears of China's growing economic dominance in Asia are real. In the early 1990s, Japan's share of the deficit spiked at more than 50%, but it since has sunk to about 10%. Meanwhile, China's share has slowly crept upward, to more than 20%, and now represents the U.S.'s largest deficit with any country. The trend is set to continue as Beijing opens the mainland's economy to meet the terms of WTO membership. Bush will also have to keep a spotlight on the Chinese policy of pegging...
...honesty. Washington could lie when he needed to--for instance, by misrepresenting for posterity his role in the disastrous engagement at Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War. And throughout his career, he feigned a lack of ambition as cover for a relentless impulse to move upward in the world...
...hearing rapper Black Rob rhyme praises to Nike in a television ad. Gu learned more on Nike's Internet page and persuaded overseas friends to send him music. Now they send something else too: limited-edition Nikes unavailable in China. Gu and his partner sell them in their shop, Upward, to Beijing's several hundred "sneaker friends" and wear them while spinning tunes in Beijing's top clubs. To them, scoring rare soles and playing banned music are part of the same rebellious experience. "Because of the government, Chinese aren't allowed access to a lot of these things," says...