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...terrorists--next to Osama bin Laden's name. In an effort to depict how the elusive al-Qaeda leader, now 52, may have aged over the past decade, an FBI forensic artist took a photo of Llamazares from the Internet and merged it with bin Laden's features. The bureau has apologized to Llamazares and removed the picture from its website...
...failure save Detroit? That's one of the fundamental questions Paul Ingrassia, a Pulitzer Prize--winning former Detroit bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, explores in his treatise on U.S. carmakers' rise, fall and hoped-for resurrection. It was quite a fall. Throughout much of the 20th century, companies like Ford helped build the American middle class. For part of the 1990s, Detroit trounced its Japanese rivals in the SUV business. But then U.S. automakers, essentially, got lazy. Their war with the auto unions didn't help. Nor did the rise of the likes of Toyota. By the autumn...
...describe a black person has largely fallen out of polite conversation - except on the U.S. Census questionnaire. There, under "What is this person's race?" is an option that reads, "Black, African Am., or Negro." That has raised the ire of certain black activists and politicians as the Census Bureau gears up to mail out its once-a-decade questionnaires. The controversy has been cast by many as an instance of a tone-deaf agency not keeping up with the times. In actuality, the flash point represents a much larger theme: the often contentious way the Census both reflects...
...Census Bureau is aware that times are changing - and not just when it comes to the word Negro. As part of the 2010 Census, the bureau will test 15 major changes to questions about race and Hispanic origin. For each, approximately 30,000 households will receive a slightly different questionnaire so that demographers and statisticians can use data - along with follow-up interviews - to decide if the modification helps or hurts the accuracy and consistency of information collected. "We hope this will help us better understand the way people identify with these concepts," says Nicholas Jones, chief of the Census...
...Home sales last year increased in value 80% over 2008, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That pace has slowed in recent weeks as buyers like Chen are now looking for government intervention. In late December, Premier Wen Jiabao promised action to help keep housing prices in check. "As the property market is recovering rapidly this year, housing prices in some cities are rising too fast, which deserves the great attention of the central government," he told Xinhua, the state-run news service. During Thursday's press conference announcing the 2009 GDP numbers, Ma too acknowledged that "the price...