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China is the Asian country best positioned to pull through the global downturn. The economy is still on track to grow 8% this year even as its exports to the U.S. slacken, and Beijing's coming membership in the WTO will require market reforms that by some estimates will boost...
...will compete for jobs with people laid off from state-owned enterprises. "Cutting agricultural subsidies will be the most difficult thing China has to do for WTO," says Pu Yonghao, a senior economist at Nomura International in Hong Kong. "There are serious doubts whether they will be able to pull it off without too much social unrest...
...that one day the Yangtze River will flood his simple mud-walled house. But to a barge-towman who spent most of his years in the westernmost of the Three Gorges in central China, straining against ships' ropes of braided bamboo, this looming disaster is relative. "I used to pull boats through there 25 times a month," says the 73-year-old, pointing from his doorway to Qutang Gorge, where the Yangtze rushes between towering limestone cliffs...
...Crimson started a small rally after the second Big Green goal and converted on its fourth penalty corner of the half. Sophomore forward Mina Pell tipped in a slapper by Maasdorp to pull Harvard within 2-1 with 18 minutes left in the first half...
...Crimson recovered defensively in the second half to hold the Knights scoreless, but wasn’t able to manufacture any goals until the fourth quarter to pull within...