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...Despite the soaring skyscrapers of China's eastern seaboard, much of the inland population remains undernourished?and the gap between urban rich and rural poor is yawning ever wider. Unemployment is burgeoning, and millions who are technically employed by the state haven't received a paycheck in months. Bloody labor protests have convulsed dozens of industrial towns this year. Tired of relying on lackadaisical police and ineffectual courts, normal citizens are also becoming restive. "People have no way to complain," says Shan Guangnai, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. "So they've started to take...
...stronger economy. When the streets are clearer and curbs are easier to get to in a delivery van, New York's businesses will run better. When the sidewalks feel wider, the air is cleaner, and walking in the city is pleasant in any neighborhood, New York's real lifeblood - its shoppers - will spend more time looking in windows, stopping for coffee, picking up something on sale. Everybody wins...
...York is still the greatest city in the world, but imagine it even better - less traffic, cleaner air, wider streets, more efficient transportation. The national media (who lives here anyway) would love it. Tourists would love it. New Yorkers would love...
...pool tables in back. On an early November weekday, Reyes stands by a life-size cutout of himself hawking San Miguel beer. He bought this place from a friend, the real Caesar Morales, and gave it to Nita, his sister. He's older now, of course, a bit wider around the middle. In jeans and a green polo shirt, a towel over his shoulder, he casually works the table under the gaze of an early afternoon clientele watching perhaps the world's greatest billiards player...
That prompted Cephalon, the biotech firm that markets the drug in the U.S., to begin studies to determine whether the pill could prove useful for a wider variety of problems, including obstructive sleep apnea, a condition in which various breathing problems make restful sleep nearly impossible. (Even after successful treatment of the breathing problem, some people with sleep apnea still feel extremely drowsy during the day.) Last week Cephalon announced plans to acquire--for $450 million in cash--the small French pharmaceutical company from which it licenses Provigil...