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...suffered the prejudice and discrimination of Westerners. However, in recent times, China has opened up, transforming an impoverished country into a miracle of history. With a booming economy, a huge population, remarkably high economic growth and with more affluent Chinese willing to spend big bucks on luxury goods, no wonder investors from everywhere are pouring much of their resources into the Chinese market and trying hard to woo many Chinese consumers and companies to their own homelands. China has a emerged as a global superpower, and this century may very well be a Chinese century. Chern Nee Chua, Singapore...
...those problems - labor flexibility, opportunities for young graduates, hiring incentives - which French politicians have been unwilling or unable to tackle for decades. But Sarkozy's reforms have rarely delivered all they promised, and continue to ignore some problems. With young French so frustrated and angry, it's little wonder that the new protest movement is growing in popularity. "We had little choice but to step into that void and get something done ourselves, because it was clear we were going to be left to rot as these older forces focused on their usual agendas," Bayou says. While unions...
Goldman's CEO and other top execs are set for another huge payday this year, although some of his former partners wonder about the backlash against him and the firm as a result. Blankfein is worried too. How is he to juggle the firm's great success - and the attendant increasing bonus expectations of the high achievers working at the firm - with the inevitable public outcry that will result from paying out multiple millions of dollars in bonuses at a time when people all over the country are still reeling from a financial calamity largely of Wall Street's making...
...premier promoter in the fast-growing sport of mixed martial arts, Couture, 46, is an aging man in a sport that can obliterate even young, healthy bones. As such, he amounts to a litmus test for the next wave of young MMA athletes, who have to wonder, how long can we hang around this grueling sport? Mixed martial arts, after all, is a violent sport that combines wrestling, boxing, jiu-jitsu and other forms of combat fighting. So in spite of the money he can make, won't Couture see the lasting damage inflicted on so many fighters, like...
...those guys who likes to measure all that crap." As he's gotten older, Couture has also paid more attention to blood chemistry. He's now cutting down on his iron intake. "I had way too much iron in my system," Couture says. Of course, it's natural to wonder if a 46-year-old man can last without performance-enhancers like steroids. UFC fighters, however, do get tested, and Couture's record is clean...