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...By contrast the sets for Tristan und Isolde (1987) at the Los Angeles Music Center Opera — huge moving coloured beams, jutting promontory, ship’s sails billowing towards us, blinding light — correspond to...
...“When it comes to China’s core interests, any country’s deterrence against China will be useless,” says Sr Col Cao Yanzhong, a research fellow at the PLA’s Academy of Military Sciences....
...Xu Poling, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who studies Russia’s economy, says the conflict in Ukraine is not in Beijing’s interest....
...At Heyuan Fule Senior Care Center in Zhangjiakou, none of the 20 care workers has a pension even though it is required by law....
...But she’s most at home in New York. As I settle into a steady pace in the East River, bubbles arc from my thumbs as I thrust each arm forwards....
...1,004 Americas DJIA up +0.14% at 13,597 S&P 500 down -0.05% at 1,460 Bovespa up +0.06% at 61,688 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.52% at 9,134 Topix up +0.56% at 758.03 Hang Seng up +0.76% at 20,748 Shanghai Composite...
...1,008 Americas DJIA up +0.14% at 13,597 S&P 500 down -0.05% at 1,460 Bovespa unchanged 0.00% at 61,688 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.25% at 9,110 Topix up +0.34% at 756.38 Hang Seng up +0.70% at 20,735 Shanghai...
...A recent Pew Research Center study underscored the disconnect....
...And there’s no reason to hold our noses at that....
...The city’s position was only strengthened when canals made Manhattan the eastern end of a great watery arc that cut through the Midwest all the way to New Orleans....
...In spite of being only the 22nd largest – with just one-seventh the number of California’s voters – the Rocky Mountain state has attracted more money from outsiders than any other, according to the Center...
...Remarks of President Barack Obama — As Prepared for Delivery The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan United States Military Academy at West Point December 1 2009 Good evening....
...Hopeful reform is already taking hold in an arc from Morocco to Jordan to Bahrain....
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