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Lawmakers' Profits Are Scrutinized
Seeded on Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:41 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) made a $2 million profit last year on the sale of land 5 1/2 miles from a highway project that he helped to finance with targeted federal funds.
Beijing University Professor Proposes Multi-Party System at Xishan Meeting
Seeded on Mon May 1, 2006 12:55 AM EDT (theepochtimes.com)
On March 4, 2006, dozens of high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, senior economists and legal experts held the "Xishan Meeting" at the Xinglin Mountain Village, a Beijing suburb.
Source: China payout for Tiananmen
Seeded on Mon May 1, 2006 12:48 AM EDT (CNN)
It doesn't quite signify the change in policy about the Tiananmen massacre that you might think , though.
China faces storm in a D-cup as bust sizes grow
Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:44 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup-sizes in China because improved nutrition is busting all previous chest measurement records.
China's army bans snoring
Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:46 AM EDT (CNN)
No drug users, no tattoos, no heavy snorers.
Top Portuguese wine producer switches to caps
Seeded on Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:35 AM EDT (Reuters)
A top Portuguese wine maker has announced he is switching from corks to aluminum bottle caps, causing alarm in the world's biggest cork-producing country.
China criticized for alleged use of prisoner organs
Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:04 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
British transplant experts accused China on Wednesday of removing organs from executed prisoners without their consent in order to sell them.
Shoot-on-sight curfew issued in Nepal
Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:59 AM EDT (CNN)
Things are getting ugly in Nepal.
Pollution threat from China a 'far eastern Chernobyl'
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:12 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Russia faces a major environmental threat from factories in neighbouring China, a newspaper said, dubbing the situation a "far eastern Chernobyl".
Chinese Leader To Come to U.S. Well Prepared
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:09 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The Chinese government has devoted intense energy into getting President Hu Jintao ready for this week's visit to the United States, feeding intelligence, position papers and economic statistics to a leader famous for meticulous preparation.
Beijing's campaign gets a kick up the backside
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:56 PM EDT (Toronto Star)
Beijing's campaign to improve the behaviour of its citizens at sporting events before the 2008 Olympics got enthusiastic backing from one spectator at the China Open yesterday.
Not yet time for UN sanctions on Sudan officials: Russia, China
Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:49 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Russia and China said that the time was not ripe for slapping proposed UN Security Council sanctions on four Sudanese officials over their alleged role in bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region.
Dave Chappelle: Why I walked away
Seeded on Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:34 AM EDT (CNN)
Culturally: "The bottom line was, white people own everything, and where can a black person go and be himself or say something that's familiar to him and not have to explain or apologize?"
Lawmaker upset by silence on another Dubai deal
Seeded on Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:18 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Let's not forgot that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were US citizens and their money undoubtedly passed through US banks.
Discontent in Dubai
Seeded on Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:27 AM EDT (BBC News)
Dubai is a luxurious city of glass skyscrapers that didn't exist twenty years ago. It boasts the world's only seven star hotel and is soon to have the world's tallest building and largest mall.
Yuan Falls on Speculation China Trying to Create Wider Swings
Seeded on Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:07 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
China's yuan had its biggest two- day drop against the dollar since July's revaluation, adding to signs the central bank is allowing wider swings in the currency.
Beijing air quality reaches hazardous level five - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:47 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
For the first three months of the year, Beijing has had the lowest number of "blue sky" days in the past five years. This doesn't bode well for marathon runners in the 2008 Olympics!
Beijing cleanup is Olympian task
Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:45 PM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
Robin Howlett says Beijing was a city of blue skies and open roads when he arrived from Britain in 1988. These days, he rides his scooter wearing a surgical mask to keep out dust and fumes from the Chinese capital's 8,000 construction sites and more than two million vehicles.
China decries Falun Gong's "concentration camp" reports
Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:42 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
China on Wednesday denounced reports by the outlawed Falun Gong group that a Chinese hospital was a "concentration camp" taking detained practitioners' organs for transplants.
China marks post-1949 first with Buddhist forum - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:39 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
China hosts the World Buddhist Forum this week, its first international religious meeting since the Communists swept to power more than five decades ago.
China's snub to Dalai Lama due to concerns of 'disharmony'
Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:35 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
China has not invited the Dalai Lama to its first major international Buddhism forum because it fears the Tibetan spiritual leader would create "disharmony", officials said.
Rolling Stones in China: the Outside Story
Seeded on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:46 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
An interesting firsthand account from one of the many foreigners attend the historic Rolling Stones concert in Shanghai. He didn't make it in.
The War On Sanity
Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:19 PM EDT
There's a war going on right now, and I believe we – as a society, as a nation, as a race – are losing. It's being fought globally but it is also being fought on our soil, in our communities, and even in our homes.
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Next Prius to offer 94 mpg?
Seeded on Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:09 PM EDT (Leftlane)
The next Toyota Prius will offer an astonishing 113 mpg, according to a report by the U.K.'s AutoExpress magazine.
On Political Correctness
Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:10 PM EDT
I received an email the other day that had been sent out to the entire campus. Here's an exerpt:
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