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...retail outlets in the U.S. will start selling Li Ning products. Li Ning Co. is also testing the waters in Singapore with a new showroom and has collaborated with Dutch rapper Ali B for a line of clothing in Europe. Jay Li says Li Ning will not rush its growth internationally, but he's confident it will become a global player. "We have aspirations to be a global brand, and we will eventually get there," he says. Jay Li isn't the only one who thinks Li Ning is poised to break out. The Credit Suisse Research Institute released...
...Still, many analysts believe the sector has stabilized enough to continue rebounding on its own, albeit at a painfully slow pace. "It's not going to look like a V-shaped recovery in the housing market. It's going to be one flat, long hockey stick, with anemic growth," says Mark Fleming, chief economist at First American CoreLogic...
...Along with habitat loss, the apes face threats from human population growth and a surge in the bush-meat trade - locals and organized traders killing wildlife to eat and sell - along with the spread of the Ebola virus, estimated to have killed about a third of the world's gorillas in the past 15 years. (Read why Ebola is killing gorillas...
...researchers said that they plan to focus next on strains of cyanobacteria that use an engineered lipid synthesis pathway that allows the bacteria to directly secrete biofuels into growth medium...
...This remedy, however, is not likely to be of much interest to China, whose one-child policy demonstrates the nation's ongoing commitment to curbing - not encouraging - population growth. Beijing, it seems, is not so much concerned with disrupting family planning - if it were, it might consider astronaut applications from women who are certain they do not want children or broaden the prerequisite to include spacemen - but with the image of the women it recruits to represent it on the galactic stage. In China, being a married mother is, arguably, as much a mark of excellence as sweet-smelling breath...