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...biggest trading partner, accounting for 27.8% of the country's trade in 2006. Russia has a range of commercial contracts with Iran, among them an agreement to help construct Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. And energy-hungry China has not hesitated throughout the nuclear standoff to sign new oil and gas deals with Iran. Such economic realities have "more or less defined our range of motion" in imposing sanctions, concedes one former U.S. diplomat...
...occupiers of Xiantang's city hall are hoping their protest will force Beijing to act. So far, the police have not moved in to evict them, probably because Xiantang is small and the discontent shows no sign of spreading. But the villagers' resolve is fading. "People have to get back to work," says one protester. Beijing can no doubt win this skirmish by ignoring it. But the war on corruption will not be won by looking the other...
There's no surer sign of a fading soap opera than a lurid plot twist. Unlike their glossy American counterparts, British soaps like the long-running, top-rated EastEnders traditionally aim for stolid social realism, depicting ordinary folk pursuing humdrum lives. Now, though, dwindling audiences are spurring EastEnders' producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. In a recent plotline, a character was taken hostage by his deranged stepson and saw his wife shot as she came to his rescue...
...measures, but in certain areas it flails. It scores 69th for primary-school enrollment and 75th in ability to fend off organized crime. The U.S. does particularly poorly when it comes to macroeconomic gauges: 89th for level of government debt, 107th for savings rate. "It's a real warning sign coming out of the data," says Blanke...
...every vehicle comes with a remote-control kill switch, which sits in the sweaty palms of a DARPA employee in a chase car.) The autobots moved slowly and haltingly, their computer brains thrashing furiously to interpret incoming visual data. But like polite student drivers, they stopped at every stop sign and signaled before every turn...