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发帖数: 27535 | 1 The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization calls for the nomination
of Uyghur Leader Rebiya Kadeer to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As the
People’s Republic of China prepares to stage the Olympic Games in 2008 it
is in the process of constructing an international image that does reflect
the reality of life within its borders. This is aided by a willingness to
uncritically accept its accounts, as all European states continue to build
economic relations with its expanding economy. The ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4393 | 2 http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1800&Itemid=60
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this saber-rattling resolution that
unnecessarily escalates tensions between North and South Korea and may in
fact put US troops stationed in the area at risk.
As the resolution states, the “USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group
is conducting exercises with Republic of Korea naval forces in the waters
west of the Korean Peninsula.” Let us for a moment imagine the Chinese
milit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 3 http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/01/china_india_and_k
The Karmapa's comeuppance?
Jan 31st 2011, 17:09 by Banyan
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A CONTROVERSY that has festered for years among Tibetans has flared up. Ever
since the infant Ogyen Trinley Dorje was recognised in 1992 by both the
Chinese government and the Dalai Lama as the 17th incarnation of the Karmapa
Lama, head of one of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism, he has faced
challenges from rival claimants. And ever since 1999, when he fled from
T... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1032 | 4 In the Roman Empire, a family of 6 persons would need to cultivate 12 iugera
/ 3 hectares of land to meet minimum food requirements (without animals).[10
] If a family owned animals to help cultivate land, then 20 iugera was
needed. The same amount would also be required to meet subsistence levels if
the land was farmed using sharecropping, as in Africa Proconsularis in the
2nd century AD, in which case a third of the total crop goes to the
landowner as rent[10] (See Lex Manciana).
Such figures ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2225 | 5 我来转一个给力的翻译
2011 China Investment Guide: How To Marry A Rich Chinese
Russell Flannery
China’s new rich, as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley might say, are big, big,
big, big, big. Investors with projects to fund want their money. Schools
looking for endowment money want their children. Foreign governments want to
sell them passports and residence cards.
正如芝加哥市长Richard Daley所言，中国的有钱人现在像某万事屋老板的血糖一样…
而那些手握项目的投资者盯着他们的钱，满脑子想着怎么圈钱的学校盯着他们的娃，就
连外国政府都念叨着“怎么能把绿卡卖给这帮款爷呢…？”
And then there are ambitious souls look... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2136 | 6 Rothschilds Stage Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt To Kill Islamic Banks In
Emerging North African Markets
PwP Exclusive ©Feb 9 2011
Background: Tunisia has undergone increasing economic liberalization over
the last decade: In the 2010-2011 World Economic Forum’s Global
Competitiveness Report, it was ranked as the most competitive country in
Africa, as well as the 32nd most economically competitive country globally.
North Africa’s large Muslim populations are a vast business opportunity
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发帖数: 26222 | 7 Rothschilds Stage Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt To Kill Islamic Banks In
Emerging North African Markets
PwP Exclusive ©Feb 9 2011
Background: Tunisia has undergone increasing economic liberalization over
the last decade: In the 2010-2011 World Economic Forum’s Global
Competitiveness Report, it was ranked as the most competitive country in
Africa, as well as the 32nd most economically competitive country globally.
North Africa’s large Muslim populations are a vast business opportunity
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j****n
发帖数: 7636 | 8 Nation Male Female Average
Wealthy AsAm 89.5 95.0 92.0(s1)
Asian-American women
in Bergen County, N.J. 91.0 (3)
US Mormon 86.0
US Asian 82.1 87.4 84.8 (3)
Japan '97 80.0 85.3 83.2
US Asian 83.0
CA Asian 79.2 85.8 82.5
HI Chinese 78.4 ... 阅读全帖 |
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l**m
发帖数: 5113 | 9 JY们的26个关键词
Abundant
丰富。
精英们相信自然界的资源是丰富的，因而尽管一部分人过着奢侈的生活，这也和余下另
一部分人的痛苦生存毫无关系。穷人的问题应当由他们自己负责。比如，1950年代的中
国，原本完全可以通过让所有少女们向外国人开放来解决经济问题——比起日本，中国
的少女资源更丰富。
Boldness
1、无畏；
2、无耻。
这个词在此做无畏理解。我们知道，精英们由于掌握了真理，他们是无所畏惧的——比
如号称中国的良心的余杰（在关天上常见人给他这个称号），就敢于声称中国人的苦难
都是由于原罪的缘故……（参见词条G）。当然，这个词在这里是不会作为厚颜无耻解
释的。
Colony
殖民。
据说中国如果成功地保持这个身份100年的话今天我们将会过着美好生活。奇怪的是世
界各地的殖民地都流行着独立病。而且其中有的还是蒙受宗主国超过100年大恩而不思
报答，渴求独立这种毒药。最早的患者据说在美洲，出现在18世纪。
Defame
中伤。
周恩来的私生女、鲁迅的性无能都是很好的素料，精英们可以用这些来做钉子汤。莱温
斯基的裙子上的污点由于其实存性而不能加入到该种汤里面。这种汤需要... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4902 | 10 看你再想玩，自己一边玩儿去。
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/opinion/26herbert.html?_r=1&s
Losing Our Way
By BOB HERBERT
So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in
Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries,
laying off teachers and police officers, and generally letting the bottom
fall out of the quality of life here at home.
Welcome to America in the second decade of the 21st century. An army of long
-term unemployed workers is spread across t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 11 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/world/asia/23tombs.html?_r=1&
China Curbs Fancy Tombs That Irk Poor
Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times
A large and ostentatious tomb in the Chinese city of Chengdu includes three
split levels and two flights of stairs. More Photos »
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Published: April 22, 2011
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发帖数: 808 | 12 本·拉登一生回顾
小编摘要：2011年国际劳动节最大的劳模当属美国军队，他们终于击毙了梦魇般的本·
拉登。看看本·拉登的生平大事，感受一世枭雄的精彩与无奈。
拉登
1957 (exact date never confirmed) Born Osama bin Mohammad bin Awad bin Laden
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the seventh son among dozens of children of a
wealthy businessman.
1957年（具体日期不详）生于沙特阿拉伯，全名奥萨玛·本·穆罕默德·本·阿瓦德·
本·拉登，在富商父亲众多孩子中排行第七。
1970 Father dies.
1970年，丧父。
1974 Marries distant relative.
1974年，与一位远房亲戚成婚
1976 Studies economics and man。agement at King Abdul-Aziz University in
Jeddah.
1976年，就读于吉达阿布都尔阿济兹国王大学，学习经济学和管理学... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 13 Federal prosecutors will soon indict former presidential candidate John
Edwards on charges that he allegedly broke the law by using campaign cash to
cover up an extramarital affair with a former campaign staffer
A source tells ABC News, that Edwards is aware of the charges, which could
come down within the next two weeks, and is considering his options,
including a plea bargain that could potentially prevent the case from going
to trial.
The looming indictment comes a little over two years after... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1538 | 14 刚刚看到这新闻 觉得 这渣 和药家鑫有一拼 美国的司法 太公正了
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The scion of a wealthy Chicago-area family pleaded
guilty in a South Florida court Friday to killing two British businessmen
with his Porsche but avoided prison after agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum
to the widows.
Ryan LeVin, 36, will spend two years under house arrest in his parents'
oceanside condominium.
Fort Lauderdale The businessmen's widows supported the sentence, and their
attorneys collected checks from LeVin immediately after ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 15 ..WASHINGTON (AP) — New House Speaker John Boehner doesn't have as many
millions as his predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, but like many new committee
chairmen and other leaders, he has holdings in companies that have major
financial stakes in the actions of Congress.
For Boehner, that includes a portfolio of stocks in oil companies, financial
firms, communication companies and pharmaceuticals. Holdings among other
lawmakers include farmland, real estate and investments in high tech
companies.
None of t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 16 , other than Voice of America (VOA) and Russia news media filtered through
VOA).
(1) Liam Denning, Gazprom Chases China Pipe Dream. Wall Street Journal, June
21, 2011 (in the column Heard on the Street)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2702304070104576397893650631056.html
("Nearer-term, however, it would have to divert gas from west to east,
losing profits along the way")
My comment:
(a) The quotation confirms Gazprom presently has no mechanism to shift gas
to China (ie lack of both op... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3130 | 17 Will the foam pie incident change everything?
More than anything Rupert Murdoch or his son James said before the
Parliamentary panel on Tuesday, it may be the attack on Murdoch—and his
wife literally leaping to his defense—that changes public opinion about the
scandal that has led to the closing of The News of the World and the
resignations of top News Corp [NWSA 15.7511 0.7861 (+5.25%) ]
officials.
A man who had sat through the long, and often boring, testimony approached
the 80-year-old... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 955 | 18 why not tax more to wealthy people?
Why the middle class need to pay the bill? |
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发帖数: 6973 | 19 (1) Scott Kirsner, Defense Tech> An Illustrated Guide. A high-speed running
robot, a helicopter--Humvee hybrid, and a flying video camera are just a few
of the new armaments coming out of Boston-area labs. Boston Globe, July 31,
2011.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles
/2011/07/31/new_armaments_boston_area_labs_are_producing_for_the_us_
government/
Note:
(a) The first sentence alludes to
USS Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution
(b) TransTalk (trademark). Ray... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7037 | 20 wealthy gentleman不行吗？走地鸡来给开导开导 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 21 U.S. President Barack Obama begins a 10-day vacation Thursday, after
spending the first half of the week touring the rural Midwest listening to
concerns from residents about the economy.
The president travels Thursday to Martha's Vineyard, in the northeastern
state of Massachusetts.
Some critics have faulted Obama for vacationing during a time of economic
difficulty and picking the wealthy resort island for his family trip.
White House spokesman Jay Carney has said he does not think Americans wo... 阅读全帖 |
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o****y
发帖数: 26355 | 22 You don't need work. Just rob the wealthy ppl. |
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L*****G
发帖数: 12375 | 24 先富定居美国是未来很多年的潮流，因为美国再衰落，人均还是更富，比澳大利亚，新
西兰好。 |
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发帖数: 5555 | 25 先富了就卷铺盖跑路，落地摇身一变就是民主斗士。 |
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发帖数: 12955 | 28
Guangzhou was the most important and wealthy trading city in entire China
before 1840's. Without the Opium war, it would still maintain that status. |
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发帖数: 7037 | 29 Chinese leaders aren’t the only ones frustrated with the nation’s lack of
“soft power” influence–Jet Li is, too, and he wants to do something about
it.
The Chinese martial artist-turned-movie star is starting a taichi school
with Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma, which he hopes will break stereotypes
of taichi as an art practiced only by old people in parks. Mr. Li said he
wants it to one day be as cool to practice taichi as it is watch American
movies, watch Japanese animation or study South Kore... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1032 | 30 http://listverse.com/2007/08/17/top-10-most-wicked-popes/
Out of the 266 Popes to have ruled the Catholic Church, ten in particular
stand out for their wickedness. This is a list of the ten with a description
of their errors and faults.
1. Liberius, reigned 352-66 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
Pope Liberius is the first Pope not to be canonised a saint. He reigned
during the height of the Arian crisis during which a large majority of the
Church believed that Jesus was not God, but merely a man. The A... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 31 Hours after delivering a White House speech that called on wealthy Americans
to pay higher taxes, President Barack Obama dined with some of these very
Americans in New York. He was expected to raise more than $2 million for his
reelection campaign.
Tickets to Monday’s dinner with obama were $35,800 per person
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/09/19/obama-raises-money-in- |
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发帖数: 2801 | 32 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870331250457514277
IRS Shifts Enforcement Focus To Asia
HONG KONG—The U.S. Internal Revenue Service for the moment has one person
charged with investigating tax crimes stationed in Hong Kong, a jurisdiction
that has played a prominent role in recent U.S. tax evasion cases.
That may be about to change. The IRS is in the process of hiring and
training hundreds of agents world-wide to pursue U.S. tax dodgers who have
hidden cash overseas. Tax attorneys a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1181 | 33 上期经济学人的读者来信：
Taxing the rich
SIR – I believe I am classed as one of the wealthy in America, so I took a
great interest in your leader on how to get the well-heeled to pay more tax
(“Hunting the rich”, September 24th). You advocated a tax system that
would make the top rates more equal on wages and capital, eliminate
virtually all deductions and get rid of corporate taxes. This, you said,
would allow for a much lower top rate of income tax and would actually reap
more tax revenues from the rich. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8998 | 34 11:30 AM ET
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Editor's note: This is part of a series on the CNN Freedom Project on
domestic servitude. Read more about some in domestic servitude who are so
desperate to escape, they take their own lives. And get an update on the
nanny in domestic servitude who suffered extensive burns when, she said, a
Gadhafi relative poured boiling water on her.
(CNN) – One was sold by her impoverished parents, the oth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 35 http://www.economist.com/node/21540285
Governing China
The Guangdong model
One Chinese province adopts a beguilingly open approach—up to a point
Nov 26th 2011 | FOSHAN AND GUANGZHOU | from the print edition
UNLIKE attention-seeking politicians elsewhere, senior Communist cadres in
China like to keep their ambitions hidden. If anything, they signal grey
conservatism, stressing how little they wish to change things. But as the
country awaits a change of its leadership late next year, some high
off... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3227 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 Shanghai 讨论区 】
发信人: pvglax (两机场), 信区: Shanghai
标 题: 加州伯克利大学将建上海分校区
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 18 12:56:19 2011, 美东)
纽约时报：世界名校上海办分校。美国公立学校受困于经济危机之时，加州伯克利大学
宣布，2012年该校将与上海市政府携手共建张江分校区，接下来5年的建设资金将主要
由上海市政府和园区企业提供。
zz
NY TIMES
Berkeley Reveals Plan for Academic Center in China
SHANGHAI — The University of California, Berkeley announced this week that
it plans to open a large research and teaching facility here as part of a
broader plan to bolster its presence in China.
The public university,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2909 | 37 【 以下文字转载自 Returnee 讨论区 】
发信人: zlm (We will prevail), 信区: Returnee
标 题: 加州伯克利大学将建上海分校区 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 27 12:26:46 2011, 美东)
发信人: pvglax (两机场), 信区: Shanghai
标 题: 加州伯克利大学将建上海分校区
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 18 12:56:19 2011, 美东)
纽约时报：世界名校上海办分校。美国公立学校受困于经济危机之时，加州伯克利大学
宣布，2012年该校将与上海市政府携手共建张江分校区，接下来5年的建设资金将主要
由上海市政府和园区企业提供。
zz
NY TIMES
Berkeley Reveals Plan for Academic Center in China
SHANGHAI — The University of California, Berkeley announced this week that
it plans to open a large resea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 38 Pussy is expensive. Only the wealthy countries can afford it. The problem is
the world is limited and the wealth is limited. If the developing countries
want pussy, they have to occupy more wealth, which is not allowed by the
developed countries.
Here comes the war. |
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发帖数: 30882 | 39 十年纽知府，百亿雪花银--南方系渲染的1美元年薪市长的廉洁慈善真相
作者：中云 文章发于：乌有之乡 点击数：7351 更新时间：2011-11-25
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（译者按：白手起家、亿万富豪、大慈善家、纽约市长、纽约CEO、一美元年薪、坐地
铁上班、骑单车出行……，等等等等。自己钱多，就不用去搞贪污腐败了，而是用自己
的钱去做慈善，用自己的过人才智去全心全意为人民服务，带领大家共同富裕。有钱人
、有本事的人当官就是好！美式民主就是好！美国市长的这些故事前些年就在网络上、
社会上到处流传，但一直没弄清这是个什么人，这久因关注占领华尔街运动，得知在全
美带头镇压占领运动的纽约市长竟是彭博社老板布隆伯格，他就是那个1美元年薪的富
豪市长、大慈善家。他当纽约市长近10年，2008年时他的财富值达200亿美元，福布斯
排名全美第8，纽约第1，今年为全美第12，纽约第2。2008年他还是美国个人捐款者中
的“首善”。于是想，国内由南方系领头的媒体大肆宣传纽约市长一美元年薪、慈善等
光辉事迹的目... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3130 | 40 Buy a US House, Get a 3-Year Visa: Sen. Schumer
A new Senate bill would help spur demand in U.S. housing by offering foreign
investors a three-year "homeowners visa" if they invest half a million
dollars cash and stay in the house for 180 days, co-sponsor Sen. Charles
Schumer told CNBC Monday.
"We all know housing is dragging down our economy and the problem is basic
supply and demand," said the New York Democrat.
The bill, co-sponsored with Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, "simply increases
the dem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8463 | 41 When 俄毛民主了,
1) American will privately tell them individually: you can be super rich if
you listen to us and let Russia have several independent powerful, regional
economies.
2) The American will say, from our experiences, To be rich, the individual
economies have to have their individual power and political system to guarantee
their wealth if you become wealthy.
3) American will encourage them to become individual countries to get support from USA.
4) Russia will be divided into 5, 8, 11, 13, 1... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5411 | 42 难道是美国的间谍？ 他们为什么给美国人report analysis？
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 SHANGHAI 000422
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP/CM, INR/B AND INR/EAP
STATE PASS USTR FOR STRATFORD, WINTER, MCCARTIN, ALTBACH, READE
TREAS FOR OASIA - DOHNER/CUSHMAN, WRIGHT
USDOC FOR ITA/MAC - A/DAS MELCHER, MCQUEEN
NSC FOR WILDER AND TONG
E.O. 12958: DECL: X1 MANUAL REVIEW
TAGS: PGOV [Internal Governmental Affairs], PINR [Intelligence],
EINV [Foreign Investments], ECON [Economic Conditions], CH&#
8201;[China... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 43 http://www.economist.com/node/21541716
Why China fails at football
Little red card
The telling reasons why, at least in football, China is unlikely to rule the
world in the near future
Dec 17th 2011 | from the print edition
THE pass back to the goalkeeper seemed routine for Qingdao Hailifeng FC in
its match against Sichuan FC in September 2009, even if the ball was struck
a little too hard and the keeper only just managed to stop it running past
him and into the net. Qingdao was safely ahead 3-0... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12955 | 45
So is capitalism. Only difference is under capitalism, the wealth is taken
from the poor and redistributed to the already wealthy. |
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发帖数: 36302 | 46 仔细读读下面的新闻吧。
University of Chicago Medical Center Is Failing Emergency Patients, Nations
Emergency Physicians Say; Urge Congress to Hold Hearings on the State of
Emergency Care
For Immediate Release
February 19, 2009
Laura Gore - (202) 728-0610, ext. 3008
Washington, DC - The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) today
said the University of Chicago Medical Center is failing in its obligation
to treat emergency patients, citing drastic reductions in inpatient beds for
emergency patients... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1109 | 47 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: weiya (yue), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 中日女人对比,我觉得挺有道理的
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 12 13:39:54 2012, 美东)
Japanese women vs. Chinese women:
1.
Japanese women often teach their children to bravely fight the forces of
evil, and even if they lose, it is still infinitely glorious, the highest
honor.
Chinese women often teach their children that when they encounter the forces
of evil they must be good at hiding/running away/avoiding. They say that
God will punish them [the force... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 48 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455590457716761
SHANGHAI—Property prices in 70 Chinese cities in a government survey fell
in December from the previous month, marking the third straight decline
after developers cut prices to boost sales amid Beijing's campaign to cool
the property market.
Prices still rose compared with a year earlier, though at a slower rate than
in November.
Property developers are becoming more cautious and expect further price
falls this year as the governmen... 阅读全帖 |
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From Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches
By NICK BILTON and EVELYN M. RUSLI
SAN FRANCISCO — The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash
for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a
smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be
worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this
year.
The social network company announced its $5 billion... 阅读全帖 |
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Maryland. As if Maryland's tax regime wasn't already oppressive enough (
prompting both Porter and Brian Hunt to move to Florida in the past year),
Gov. Martin O'Malley is upping the ante.
As part of his 2013 fiscal year budget proposal, O'Malley will reduce tax
deductions and exemptions for the approximately 440,000 Maryland residents
earning $100,000 or more each year. The plan would cut in half the $2,400
personal exemption for individuals making $100,000 to $125,000 and famil... 阅读全帖 |
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