Exploring the Miraculous of Dating: Connections, Growth, and Idea

[CharlesteVibra]

Jtmy NASA: Temperatures rising, sea ice melting at record rate
Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.That s because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the latest example.The National Oceanic and A crocs hausschuhe tmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the glob adidas campus shoes e averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit 15.72 degrees Celsius . That was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping.It was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August.NASA, which measures temperatures slightly differently, had already determined that September was record-warm. Polar vortex shatters temperature records 01:15 The first nine months of 2014 have a global average temperature of 58.72 degrees 14.78 degrees Celsius , tying with 1998 for the warmest first nine months on record, according to NOAA salomon speedcross s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. It s pretty likely that 2014 will break the record for hottest year, said NOAA climate scientist Jessica Blunden.The reason involves El Nino, a warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather worldwide. In 1998, the year started off super-hot because of an El Nino. But then that El Nino disappeared and temperatures moderated slightly toward the end of the year.This year has no El Nino yet, but forecasts Uyae Stocks slump as coronavirus fears spook investors in U.S. and overseas
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic angrily refused to work with two court-appointed lawyers Tuesday as they called the first witness in his war crimes defense case mdash; an elderly Serbian nationalist who taught him law and advised the Yugoslav government as it headed into civil war.Smilja Avramov, a former professor at Belgrade University born in 1919, was questioned for several hours by Steven Kay, one of two British lawyers assigned last week against Milosevic s will to contest the 66 war crimes counts in his indictment.Avramov, like Milosevic a vocal opponent of the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, praised Bosnian Serb hard-liners Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both indicted on genocide charges for the 1995 massacre of 7,500 Muslims near Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia.Milosevic, who insists on representing himself in court, has rejected any form of cooperation with Kay or his deputy, Gillian Higgins. These defense lawyers are not my lawyers, they are your lawyers, he told Presiding Judge Patric stanley cup k Robinson. I ask you to return my right of self-defense to me. Milosevic was told he could q stanley cup uestion Avramov, but Milosevic said he would not accept crumbs from the court. I have no intention of exercising any rights as Mr. Kay s assistant. I m not going to accept that, the former Serbian leader said.Karadzic, the stanley tumbler Bosnian Serb leader during the 1992-1995 war, and Mladic, his top military commander, have eluded capture for eight years and remain

[CharlesteVibra]

Tipk Massive protests as Poland implements near-total ban on abortions
SINGAPORESingapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically. Nearby Malaysia closed 200 sc nike dunk donna hools and banned open burning in some areas.The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore s main measure for air pollution, surged to a record reading of 371, breaching the hazardous classification that can aggravate respiratory ailm asics gel ents. The previous all-time high before this week was in 1997, when the index reached 226.The hazardous reading lasted three hours before easing to 253 in the evening, still very unhealthy. Smog fueled by raging Indonesian blazes has hit Sing adidas originals hamburg apore and Malaysia many times, often in the middle of the year, but the severity of this week s conditions has strained diplomatic ties. Officials in Singapore say Jakarta must do more to halt fires on Sumatra island started by plantation owners and farmers to clear land cheaply. This is now the worst haze that Singapore has ever faced, Singapore s Environment Minister Vivian Balakrishnan wrote on his Facebook page. No country or corporation has the right to pollute the air at the expense of Singaporeans health and wellbeing. A group of people sit along the bay as the Garden by the Bay s Super Trees are shrouded by haze in Singapore on June 20, 2013. Getty The haze has shrouded the city-s Hzrr Accused GIs: We Had Orders To Kill
Updated 6:40 PM ET CBS/AP WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the U.S. belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani tr stanley flask oops in a NATO airstrike.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed her condolences for the deaths in a telephone conversation with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. The incident badly damaged already strained relations between the two countries and forced the U.S. and its allies to send supplies via costlier northern routes into Afgha stanley cups nistan. We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military, Clinton said in a statement, recounting her discussion with Khar. I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives. Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives. White House, Pakistan in talks on supply linesPakistan FM: Time to reopen NATO supply route It is the first time any U.S. official has formally apologized for the deaths, a step hotly debated within the Obama administration and one demanded by Pakistan while its supply routes remained closed for seven months. It came as key Pakistani civilian and militar stanley termosy y leaders were meeting Tuesday evening in Islamabad to discuss whether to reopen NATO supply routes.Some 7,000 truckloads of equipment bound for the U.S. military in Afghainstan have been stranded in Pakis

[CharlesteVibra]

Upwq Venezuela Expands State Control Of Oil
New Updates 1 air force 0:36 PM / July 23, 2021 Women s Soccer Group E: Japan, Canada, Great Britain, ChileGroup F: China, Brazil, Zambia, NetherlandsGroup G: Sweden, USA, Australia, New ZealandTuesday, July 27, Group StagesUnited States v. Australia, 4 a.m.New Zealand v. Sweden, 4 a.m.Chile v. Japan, 7 a.m.Canada v. Great Britain, 7 a.m.Netherlands v. China, 7:30 a.m.Brazil v. Zambia, 7:30 a.m.Friday, July 30, Quarterfinals2E v. 2F, 4 a.m.1E v. 3FG, 5 a.m.1G v. 3EF, 6 a.m.1F v. 2G, 7 a.m.Monday, Au nike sb dunk gust 2, Semifinals1F/2G v. 2E/2F, 4 a.m.1E/3FG v. 1G/3EF, 7 a.m.Thursday, August 5, Bronze Medal MatchTBD v. TBD, 4 a.m.Thursday, August 5, Gold Medal MatchTBD v. TBD, 10 p.m. https://cbsnews/news/olympics-2021-toky ... v-channel/ post-update-80efa118 link copied 4:11 PM / July 22, 2021 Women s Gymnastics adidas sambarose Tuesday, July 27Women s gymnastics team finals, 6 a.m Nnmr Air Mishap Kills Greek Official
Last Updated 1:48 p.m. EDTA demonstration near Iran s parliament turned into a bloodbath Wednesday, a source in Tehran water bottle stanley told CBSNews.Thousands gathered at the parliament building for a silent protest, reported the unnamed source. But scene took a violent turn when more than 1,000 police and Basij militia arrived to disperse the crowd. It turned into a bloodbath ... they threw some people off the bridges...after the Basijis came, they began to use tear gas, sticks and shooting, he said.Earlier Wednesday, Iran s supreme leader said that the government would not give in to pressure over the disputed presidential election, effectively closing the door to compromise with the opposition. But reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi s official Web site said that a protest was planned nonetheless outside Iran s parliament stanley tumblers Wednesday afternoon. It distanced him at the same time, calling the demonstration independent and saying it had not been organized by Mousavi.IranWatch: Track the latest on the Iran stanley cup usa election upheaval.Mousavi s mixed messages about the demonstration reflected the dilemma facing the unlikely opposition leader, a longtime supporter of Iran s government thrust to the head of a pro-democracy protest movement.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered protests to end, leaving Mousavi with the choice of restraining followers or continuing to directly challenge the country s ultimate authority despite threats of escalating force. Other reports of the

[CharlesteVibra]

Usep Deadliest Year For Journalists In Decade
Palestinians in the densely packed Gaza Strip continued to face the fury of Israel s military Tuesday as it exacted the first phase of nike sb dunk its revenge for the Hamas militant group s unprecedented, bloody weekend assault on the Jewish state. The Israel Defense Forces said airstrikes targeted some 200 targets in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory overnight, fewer than the previous evening s barrage, but it was increasingly clear that the missiles were just an opening salvo for what Israel has promised will be a devastating blow against Hamas.Israeli families were still reeling Tuesday from the brazen ground, air and sea assault launched Saturday by Hamas. The scale and brutality of the attack, which Israel said had claimed more than 1,000 lives, left some 2,500 more people wounded and more than 100 held captive by Hamas, appeared to take not only the Israeli people but their government by surprise.At least 14 U.S. nationals were among the dead in Israel, and an unclear number were also among the hostages held by Hamas. The Biden administration has said that while Iran is broadly complicit in supporting Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups, it has seen no clear evidence that Tehran had a role in planning or orchestrating the Saturday attack on Israel.Prime Minister adidas campus donna Benjamin Netanyahu, with full-throated backing from his country s most vital ally, the United S asics tates, said Hamas had started a war, but he vowed that Israel will finish it. He s said Israel will not sto Odvy Bin Laden s Pakistan villa: Tourist destination
Sri Lanka s foreign minister, who led efforts to ban the country s Tamil Tiger rebels as a terrorist organization, was fatally shot by unidentified snipers after a swim at his home late Friday, officials said. The military blamed the rebels.Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, was shot was shot at about 11 p.m. local time in the head and the heart and taken to the National Hospital in the capital, Colombo, where doctors were unable to save him, said Inspector General of Police, Chandra Fernando. He said Kadirgamar had just returned to his heavily guarded home in Colombo when snipers hiding in nearby buildings opened fire. The injuries were critical and he has gone, said Media Minister Dilan Perera.Fernando said the minister had just finished stanley cups uk a swim at his home when he was shot.Kadirgamar, a member of Sri Lanka s Tamil minority, was highly critical of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam and led an international campaign to ban the Tigers as a terrorist organization. He w stanley cups as a close aide of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who appointed him foreign minister in April 2004. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting, but military spokesman Brig. Daya Ratnayake said police in the past week had arrested two Tamil men who were taking video of the area around Kadirgamar s house. We have reasons to stanley cup believe that he was killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam, said Ratnayake. He was always under threat. Rebel attacks against Sri Lankan political leaders were comm

[CharlesteVibra]

Lxjv Iraq Photos: lt;br gt;March 6 -- 12
Vilnius, Lithuania mdash; A DHL cargo plane crashed early Monday near the airport in Lithuania s capital, killing one person, authorities said as they searched for clues to what caused the tragedy. Lithuanian officials, who in the past weeks have been investigating incendiary devices allegedly sent on Western-bound cargo planes, stopped short of linking the crash with that investigation. It is premature to asso adidas originals samba ciate it with anything or to make any attributions, State Security Department chief Darius Jauniskis told reporters. Images from the crash site in the capital Vilnius showed debris from the plane and packages on fire scattered across the residential area, which had been cordoned off by the emergency services. Firefighters work at the crash site of a cargo pla air force 1 ne near Vilnius International Airport in Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov. 25, 2024. Lithuania Fire and Rescue Service/Anadolu/Getty We cannot rule out the case of terrorism. We have warned that such things are crocs absatz possible, we see an increasingly aggressive Russia... but we cannot make any attributions or point fingers yet, Jauniskis said.U.S. and European law enforcement agencies have been working together for weeks to investigate whether incendiary devices that detonated in July at DHL logistics hubs in Germany and Britain were part of a larger operation directed by Russian military intelligence agencies, the highes Wpcj Israel Elections Go Into High Gear
The infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign stolen last month from Auschwitz and broken into three pieces was returned to the museum at the site of the Nazi death camp Thursday.Police 151; who had quickly recovered the damaged sign after its theft 151; gave it to museum officials at a brief ceremony in Krakow. It was then taken to the museum 50 miles stanley tumblers 80 kilometers away, where conservation experts examined the three dark steel pieces of the sign, whose cynical Nazi slogan means Work Sets You Free. Thieves had cut up the sign at the site of the death camp the night of their heist to make it easie cups stanley r to transport in their getaway car.Five Polish suspects have confessed to stealing it on Dec. 18. However, officials are still seeking a suspected neo-Nazi from Sweden who is believed to have ordered the theft, possibly for a collector of Nazi memorabilia, prosecutors said.The sign has been examined in recent weeks by police forensic experts for evidence, and the museum s conservationists will assess the damage and determine how to repair it, Auschwitz spokesman Pawel Sawicki said. It s a very long process, Sawicki said, stressing that the sign would not be returned any time soon to its original spot above the main entrance at Ausc stanley cup hwitz 151; if at all.Sawicki said officials must still decide whether to eventually put back the original sign or leave up the replica now in its place.Rabbi Andrew Baker, a member of the International Auschwitz Council, said the group hasn t met

[CharlesteVibra]

Lgfd Dawn of the day of a new beer behemoth
Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images During the annual celebration in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals, revelers ride their horses through the narrow cobble-stoned streets of San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain to purify and protect the animals with the smoke and flames of the bonfires for the year ahead. Las Luminarias Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images A horseman jumps over a bonfire during the opening of the traditional religious festival called Luminarias in 2018.Thick smoke fills the cobbled streets of San Bartolome de Pinares as the clip-clop of galloping hooves edges ever clos hoka er to a bonfire crackling nearby. Las Luminarias Pablo Blazquez Dominguez, Getty Images A horse jumps through a bonfire during the festival in 2016.According to tradition that dates back 500 years adidas originals hamburg , people rode their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of yeezy this small village to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires. Las Luminarias Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images A boy climbs on to a pile of branches to feed bonfires. Las Luminarias Eoau U.N. slams unrelenting attacks on civilians by U.S. allies
For the tenth straight stanley cup day, protesters are swarming the streets of Cairo demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down and end his 30-year rule. Our blog covers the latest news out of Egypt. FYI: Egypt is seven hours ahead of the time posted, which is the eastern U.S. time. Day 11 Coverage of Egypt in CrisisDay 9 Coverage of Egypt in CrisisComplete Coverage: Anger in the Arab World A wounded anti-government protestor is tended during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Another bout of heavy gunfire and clashes erupted Thursday around dusk in the Cairo square at the center of Egypt s anti-government chaos, while new looting and arson spread around the capital. Gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners, and human rights workers and the army rounded up foreign journalists. stanley water bottle AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner 9:00 p.m. The New York Times is reporting Thursday night that the Obama Administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for Hosni Mubarak t stanley thermoskannen o resign immediately as President of Egypt with Vice President Omar Suleiman heading a transitional government. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the White House is talking with Egyptian officials about multiple options. Read the CBS News story here.8:05 p.m. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports it s not just in Egypt that a

[CharlesteVibra]

Iurn Ahmadinejad under fire for hugging Chavez s mother
A man from northwest Arkansas has gone missing while celebrating his graduation from medical school in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to his friends and family. Jessy Pacheco, who also attended the University of Arkansas mdash; Fort Smith, was last seen Saturday,CBS affiliate KFSM-TV reported.Pacheco s family fears he has been kidnapped after spending time at a club in af1 Mexico. They claim he was with a friend who was found shot dead a block away from the club, although that hasn t been confirmed by officials, KFSM-TV states.The recent grad s cousins have taken the search for their missing loved into their own hands. If nobody s gonna help us, we gotta help ourselves, Francine Solis told KFSM-TV. Meanwhile, Pacheco s other cous adidas campus in Jeffrey Solis has reached out to the U.S. Embassy and FBI, but apparently have received little assistance. Jessy Pacheco Pacheco family via KFSM-TV The U.S. Embassy said that they couldn t help because they have no jurisdiction there, Jeffrey said. When I contacted the FBI to make this report they adidas campus damen said that s wrong because he s a U.S. citizen. The family said Pacheco was set to return Tuesday from Mexico to begin his career as a pediatrician. They continue to carry on the search and has set up aGoFundMeto help cover the cost. More from CBS News Xoss Erin Go Brain Gain
JERUSALEM - An anti-tank missile fired f stanley cups uk rom the Gaz stanley cup usa a Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said, prompting fierce Israeli retaliation.Israel to citizens: Evacuate Sinai immediatelyIsrael hits Gaza in retaliation for rocket fireIsrael unleashed airstrikes against Hamas targets across the border as well as tank fire that killed a 50-year-old civilian outside his home and wounded nine other people, Palestinian medics said.The sudden outbreak of violence illustrated the fragile situation along the Israel-Gaza border, where small bouts of violence can quickly escalate into heavy-scale warfare. After a two-year l stanley becher ull, tensions have been rising between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza over the past few weeks. From Israel s perspective, Thursday s attack was the most serious of this period.Israel s defense minister, Ehud Barak, ordered the army to respond quickly and said he held the Hamas militant group, which rules Gaza, responsible for the violence. A small militant faction known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.Israeli medical services said the bus was nearly empty after dropping off school children and was carrying only the driver and a lone passenger at the time of the attack. Paramedics were trying to resuscitate a 16-year-old boy with a serious head wound at the scene. The driver was moderately wounded.TV footage showe

[CharlesteVibra]

Qzho China: Negligence Killed 233
At 6:09 p.m. on Tuesday, disaster struck Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. As explosionsravaged the city, one woman poignantly captured the moment, freezing it in time.Lebanese photographer Aya Nehme shared a pi salomon zapatillas cture she took on her Instagram this week tha adidas samba damen t features a car, completely destroyed by the explosions. Amid the rubble is a clock, stuck at the time 6:09 mdash; the exact moment the explosion happened. It stopped short, never to go again, when Beirut died, Nehme wrote. A clock in Beirut is stuck at 6:09 p.m., the time of a devastating explosion on August 4, 2020. yeezy Aya Nehme Nehme told CBS News that she took the photo in the Mar Mikhael neighborhood of Beirut. She said the photo did not appear to be staged. I went downtown to capture some trace of life in this chaos, she said. I came across a destroyed car, in the truck, a clock. A clock that had stopped at exactly 6:09 pm. The time it all happened. I ve walked these streets for 25 years, and today I could not recognize them. The photo is reminiscent of the iconic frozen clocks and watches found after the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Charred timepieces from that day are stuck at about 8:15 a.m., when the U.S. Air Force dropped the uranium bomb, killing more than 100,000 people. Tuesday s explosions, which killed at least 150 people and wounded thousands more,destroyedmuch Gcba Pakistani Politician s Alleged Murderer Shown Support by Islamic Hard-Liners
Updated 10:17 a.m. ET BAGHDAD Multiple car bombs exploded within minutes of each other as Iraqis were stanley cups out shopping in and around Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 100 in mainly Shiite areas.The attacks come amid rising sectarian discord in Iraq and appear aimed at shaking Iraqis confidence in the Shiite-led government. The explosions struck at the start of the local work week and primarily targeted outdoor markets.Violence in Iraq has fallen since the height of sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007, but insurgents still frequently launch lethal attacks against security forces and civilians. It was at least the third time this month that attacks have claimed more than 20 lives in a single day.The detonation of a parked car loaded with explosives in the sprawling Shiite district of Sadr City heralded the start of the attacks Sunday morning. Two more parked cars later exploded elsewhere in the neighborhood. Nima Khadum, a government employee, said the blasts shattered the windows of his Sadr City house. He said the air was heavy with smoke, while burning cars littered the street and the bodies of the dead and wounded lay nearby. The scene was a bloody one that brought to my mind the painful memories of the violent pa stanley cup st, he said. I don t see the benefit of s stanley becher ecurity checkpoints that only cause traffic jams and don t do anything to secure Baghdad. The government, with its failing security forces, bears full responsibility for the bloodshed

[CharlesteVibra]

Tsic Russian oligarch stashes second yacht in Turkey, apparently to beat Ukraine-linked sanctions
TOKYO mdash; The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed in developing robots to locate and assess the condition of melted fuel rods.A robot sent inside the Unit 2 containment vessel last month could not reach as close to the core area as was hoped for because it was blocked by deposits, believed to be a mixture of melted fuel and broken pieces of structures inside. Naohiro Masuda, president of Fukushima Dai-ichi Decommissioning, said he wants another probe sent in before deciding on methods to remove the reactorrsquo debris.Unit 2 is one of the Fukushima reactors that melted down following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.The plantrsquo operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., needs to know the melted fuelrsquo exact location as well as structural damage in each of the three wrecked reactors to figure out the best and safest ways to remove the fuel. Probes must rely on remote-controlled robots because radiation levels are too high for humans to survive. adidas samba Fukushima ra air max diation found in U.S. waters 00:40 Despite the incomplete probe missions, officials have said they want to stick to their nike air force schedule to determine the removal methods this summer and start work in 2021. Earlier probes have suggested worse-than-anticipated chall Ilsm Kerry to meet with embattled Yemeni president in Saudi Arabia
Israel is to hand the West Bank town of Jericho to Palestinian security control Wednesday and another town a few days later, boosting cooperation.Meanwhile, leaders of Palestinian militant groups were holding talks in Cairo aimed at formalizing an unofficial truce with Israel, reports CBS News Correspondent Robert Berger. A formal cease-fire would give a boost to moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has promised to end violence and return to peace talks with Israel. However, Israel says a cease-fire is not enough. It has warned Abbas that if he fails to dismantle militant groups, they ll be able to blow up the peace process when they see fit. The largest militant faction, Hamas, said it would not jo stanley cup in the Palestinian government after parliament elections in July despite an expected strong showing because it doesn t support the Palestinian Authority s p stanley flask olicies. The growing political clout of Hamas has raised concerns that the group will be able to sabotage Isra cups stanley eli-Palestinian negotiations, even if it halts violence.The head of Israel s Shin Bet security service, meanwhile, said militant Jews in Gaza Strip settlements see Prime Minister Ariel Sharon s assassination as a legitimate means to block their evacuation, Israel Radio said. At a meeting late Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef worked out a compromise over Jericho, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.Agreements on a handover have been reached be

[CharlesteVibra]

Tapx More Ethnic War In Kosovo
Costa Rican authorities have discovered a body near the area where U.S. resident Carla Stefaniak disappeared last week. The body, which has yet to be identified, was partially buried and inside plastic near the city of San Jose, a local official told CBS News. Authorities are working with Stefaniak s family members in an effort to identify the body, said Marisel Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the Costa Rica Judicial Investigative Office.Stefaniak, a 36-year-old from Hallandale Beach, Florida, missed her flight home last Wednesday, and her family has been searching for her ever since. Her sister-in-law, A adidas originals samba pril Burton, said she last heard from Stefaniak around 8 p.m. last Tuesday. She said it was raining and the power went out.The last message Burton received from her was: It s pretty sketchy here. Later that night, all communication stopped. Carla Stefaniak Carla Stefaniak It was her birthday, an dunks shoes d she loves to be on social media, Stefaniak s brother, Carlos Caicedo, to adidas samba og ld CBS News. I m guessing every single app that there is that you can communicate [on] mdash; I m sure she was on it. Caicedo said the owner of the Airbnb told him a security guard watched his sister get into a car with her bags at 5 a.m. Wednesday morning. Burton said it didn t make sense. Her flight was at 1:30, and she was only 20 to 30 minutes away from the airport. She is never early for an Vzbd U.S.-Central America Deal On Trade
Public loudspeakers in the central squa stanley flask re blare the village anthem hourly: If you want to see a miracle, come to Huaxi. Not that any reminders are needed.Down the wide, tree-lined boulevards, rows of nearly identical red-roofed villas sit side by side. Manicured lawns and two-car garages are on every block. Each family has a house and at least one car, awarded by the community.Welcome to the richest village in China. Average family assets total $150,000 in a nation where annual per capita income hovers around $2,000. The village s major enterprises in steel, iron and textiles brought in 50 billion yuan $7.3 billion in sales in 2008. They belong to the Huaxi Group, the first commune corporation to be listed on a Chinese stock market.Yet this corporate enclave of 30,000 people also remains essentially a commune, with land owned jointly and wealth divided among all.Huaxi, though an extreme example, is emblematic of China 60 years after the Communist Party came to power on Oct. 1, 1949. After decades of denouncing free markets and then embracing them, the country is a distinctive patchwork of capitalism with communist characteristics - all anchored by a strong dose of practicality. That combination lies at the heart of Huaxi s success under Wu Renbao, its 82-year-old patriarch and steward. The village is fe stanley mug ted by the Communist Party as a model for transforming its poor peasants into wealthy corporate citiz stanley polska ens within one generation. What is socialism What is capitalism