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...Meanwhile, thousands wait, unregistered, and unsure of what their future holds. A visit of European Parliament members to the country this week to assess the situation may help highlight the suffering of a community and provoke a regional response to a challenge that today is being left to Bangladesh alone to grapple with. Leaving Kutu Palong, the children are still smiling, the chorus of 'hellos' replaced with 'goodbyes.' Many lives have begun in this camp in the last decade. Many will end here, too, without a birth or death certificate to prove that they ever existed...
...seriously hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and seriously harms Sino-U.S. relations." The comments are in line with what Chinese diplomats have said after the Dalai Lama met U.S. leaders in the past, during warmer times between the two nations. Part of Beijing's restraint this week may be due to the fact that the meeting came during the Chinese New Year, the country's biggest holiday, when most officials are on leave. But after China allowed a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to visit Hong Kong this week, China is sending signals that it doesn't want...
...China's holdings of U.S. government bonds did drop by 4% to $755 billion, the U.S. Treasury Department reported this week, but those numbers are from December, before the recent downturn in ties. China's vast holdings of U.S. debt give it only limited leverage, because any partial sell-off would harm the value of its remaining U.S. assets. Dumping Treasuries would also undermine the American economy, further dampening the market for Chinese exports. So even as the U.S. and China find a growing number of issues over which to argue, their economic interdependence helps keep the disagreements from spiraling...
...quad. It's been a hot topic among skating fans this entire week - this entire season, really - as the arguments go back and forth over whether a quadruple jump of any kind is necessary in the men's program or amounts to nothing but showboating. Lysacek decided, coming into Vancouver, not to include one in his program; he tried it at the U.S. nationals in January and fell. But he's the only skater among the top competitors who made that decision, sparking all kinds of buzz among the skating cognoscenti about whether he was pushing the sport back...
...penalties for skaters who try and flub them. Plushenko, one of the most consistent quad jumpers around, landed a quadruple toe loop jump in the early seconds of his program and still came up short of the gold on Thursday, earning a silver. He has been outspoken all week about how he feels about the quad jump. "I believe that the quad is the future of figure skating. The quad is necessary ... Not doing the quad will be going backwards in time," he said after the men's short program on Tuesday, in which he was the only skater...