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...There have been times, in fact, when the Chinese government, in the form of its state-owned media, has turned on Baidu. In 2008, CCTV, the powerful state-run television network, aired reports on the site's habit of serving up unlicensed doctors and illegal pharmacies in response to medical queries on its engine. It turned out those were Baidu advertisers. The disclosures hit directly at the site's integrity and temporarily crushed the stock. Baidu has only just finished rolling out a new program that will delineate paid results from general searches, but that remedy has taken more time...
...John, the hero meets his sweetheart by diving into a lake to retrieve her purse. The Sparks story has even more in common with Cameron's. In both pictures, a U.S. soldier encounters a beguiling outsider with an affinity for green housing: Dear John's female lead works for Habit for Humanity, while Avatar's tries to protect her tribe's Tree of Souls. So for the past two months, the box office has been dominated by movies about strong women with a noble interest in real estate. (See the best movies of the decade...
...settings like Pakistan and Yemen. But apart from a one-off abduction of 32 Europeans trekking in the Algerian desert in 2003, North African militants never showed much of an interest in kidnapping until they linked up with al-Qaeda in 2007. Since then, it's become a veritable habit. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...stress about deficit spending - especially in the wake of the worst recession to hit the continent in a lifetime? Because the habit isn't new, and it is clearly harder to kick than governments pretend. Observers note that the borrowing kick has already lifted French public debt to nearly 80% of GDP - a level that Germany is within shouting distance of, and which Italy, Belgium and Greece are well beyond. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Some of these follies stemmed from the inevitable glitches of a new Administration settling in ... Some of them resulted from sheer naiveté, much from the puerile vendetta Mr. Obama waged against the previous Administration's record, a bad rhetorical habit that fogged the brains of people who should know better...