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...today, Xi'an is experiencing a renaissance. The locals who frequent Zhu's store have cash - and they're spending it like never before. On a recent Wednesday in late October, hospital worker Hao Jie, 40, is gleeful after dropping $1,200 on a 52-inch LCD TV for her new apartment, the keys to which she received only days earlier. Nearby, a soon-to-be-married young couple, Zhang Guopeng and Luo Xi, sizes up washing machines using a measuring tape. The two engineers are also shopping to fill up a new apartment, their first home together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can China's Backwaters Save the Global Economy? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...other jets on this route. There's a 8.4 in. (21 cm) video screen with about 3,000 hours of programming, (about as long an overnight flight can feel). Alex Hervet, an A380 design engineer, explained to me that he repositioned the hinge point on the chair back an inch higher so that your knees won't get squeezed when the guy in front of you reclines his seat. Subtle LED lighting throughout the cabin changes with the time of day. But let's not kid ourselves, it's still a coach seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies? | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...synth-laden, auto-tuned electronic-rap that currently is dominating the hip-hop charts. A fast-talking Fiddy avoids subtlety, giddily rapping “Have a baby by me, baby! Be a millionaire” and “you can feel every inch of it when we intimate / I’ll use my tongue baby, I’ll leave you sprung baby.” R&B star Ne-Yo contributes to the blithe fun in the song’s hook, explaining in his most sincere croon...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 50 Cent | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...Egyptian people feel a lot of pressure every day. Life is difficult here. It is hard to find money, to make a living, and this is a hard thing to escape from," says Gamel, who packed 700 customers into every available inch of his restaurant on game night. "So football is a way to find joy, to escape from these pressures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cairo Braces for a Soccer Bombshell | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...forward with a 38-inch vertical entered Friday’s game with 17:03 remaining in the first half and immediately made his presence felt...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Crimson Employs Deep Bench Against Crusaders | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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