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...fact that people are staying single for longer but still want to buy homes, and there's a whole new taste afoot - Santa Barbara-based B3 Architects is building a series of 800-square-footers. "The big-box house is no longer the market," says Charles Shinn, principal of the builder consultancy Shinn Consulting in Littleton, Colo...
...whole, the Communist Party has proven itself to be remarkably adaptable and open to borrowing elements from different countries and political systems. As a result it is becoming a hybrid party with elements of East Asian neo-authoritarianism, Latin American corporatism and European social democracy all grafted to Confucianist-Leninist roots. The uprising in Tiananmen and across China in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist systems in Europe and the Soviet Union were instructive experiences for the CCP. Many lessons were drawn, but the principal one was to remain flexible and adaptable, not dogmatic and rigid. (Read "Beijing Clamps...
Sounds reasonable. But the whole double-metal-bar-thing seems more intimidating than it should be. Look at what FlyBy found today...
...these developments - coupled with a population decline of as much as 750,000 yearly and longstanding, sometimes-legitimate - sometimes-not-so-legitimate - nightmares involving a Chinese invasion of Siberia - have prompted Russian leaders to reassert their authority over the whole of Russia...
There's another, much more invidious force contributing to the whole disintegration hubbub: Russian markets' growing integration into the international economy - "not only with regard to oil prices but also when it comes to financial markets," says Alexei Moisseev, an analyst at Renaissance Capital, in Moscow. "Nobody expected the extent to which the financial crisis would hit Russia...