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2008-10-29

Miss Earth 2008 contestant Tanvi Vyas, 22, of India, waves to photographers during media presentations in Manila October 28, 2008. Eighty-five beauties from around the world declared their personal environmental campaigns, with the theme for this year's competition focused on "green lifestyle"

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[ 本帖最后由 我爱拉芳 于 2008-10-29 12:02 编辑 ]

NEW YORK – Wall Street had another astounding advance Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrials soaring nearly 900 points in their second-largest point gain ever as late-day bargain hunters stormed into the market. The Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 index each shot up nearly 11 percent.



Wall street broker William F. Lawrence looks at a monitor as he works on the trading floor of New York Stock Exchange shortly after the market opened Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.


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A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people, injuring scores more and leaving an estimated 15,000 homeless, officials said.


Earthquake victims dig through rubble after an earthquake in Ziarat, Baluchistan province, in this video grab taken October 29, 2008. More than 170 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck southwest Pakistan on Wednesday bringing down hundreds of mud-walled houses, and the death toll was expected to rise, government officials said.

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NEW YORK – The United States and China kicked off what is likely to be a global round of interest rate cuts, part of a barrage of measures deployed around the world to fight a deep economic slowdown.


The US.Federal Reserve cut rates by 1/2 a percentage point, in line with most analysts' forecasts.


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Attractive fathers do not pass their looks on to their sons but they will hand their good looks down to their daughters, research shows.

Psychologists have found that while both parents influence the attractiveness of their daughters, the attractiveness of male children is not inherited.

Handsome men with masculine looks are likely to pass on masculine features, but not facial attractiveness.


Brad Pitt attends the "Burn After Reading" news conference during the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival September 6, 2008. Attractive fathers do not pass their looks on to their sons but they will hand their good looks down to their daughters, research shows

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BEIJING -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for creating  more domestic needs to keep stability of the country's financial market and economic growth.


Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd R, front), chats with local farmers about the corn output in Xiaojihan Village during his two-day visit to Yulin City of northwest China's Shanxi Province on Oct. 29, 2008.

Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remark during his visit to Yulin city in northwest China's Shanxi Province from October 28 to 29.

He told the accompanying provincial Party chief Zhao Leji and governor Yuan Chunqing that the basic situation of China's economic development was still fine amid the international financial tsunami and the world economy's slowdown.
Government at all levels and the public should have firm confidence and be revivified to strive, the President told local officials. And government should make more efforts to create domestic needs, especially the consuming needs.
It also should intensify the fundamental status of agriculture in the country's economy, improve the economic growth methods and deepen the opening up and reform policy, he said.

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Some 1,600 paper-made pandas are on display at a square in Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands, October 30, 2008. Initiated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), this display is to call on a worldwide concern over the remaining 1,600 pandas remaining in the wild.

Zhuhai -- China has set a timetable for its large aircraft plan, and the first homemade jumbo jet will take to the skies by no later than the start of the 13th Five-Year Plan Period (2015-20), a senior official said on Monday.
This is the first time a timetable for the trunk liner project has been made public, since the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd was set up in May. The company is in charge of the large plane's assembly, marketing and after-sales service with an initial investment of 19 billion yuan ($2.8 billion).


Two Kiran Mik II aircraft from the Indian Air Force SKAT fly near a Chinese-made J-10 fighter jet during a rehearsal one day before the opening of the 7th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong, November 3. 2008. About 600 exhibitors with more than 60 aircraft, representing 35 countries and regions, have registered to take part in the show.

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The audience for China Central Television's Spanish channel is about to get a boost. Known as CCTV-E - the channel is now available on broadband cable TV, via Spain's Telefonica company.

The launching ceremony was held in Madrid on Friday at the headquarters of Telefonica, one of the leading telecom operators in Spain. The ceremony was attended by a Chinese delegation led by the Director General of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China - Mr. Wang Taihua.

According to the agreement between China Central Television and Telefonica, CCTV-E, the Spanish-language service will be carried on the IPTV platform of the telecom company. It will reach a considerable share of the domestic population in Spain.

CCTV-E's round-the-clock broadcasts focus mainly on news, but also contain features, cultural programs and TV series. Targeting the Hispanic world, the service is meant to promote exchanges between China and Spanish-speaking countries. So far, it has been made available to a great number of countries in Central and South America.

Wang Taihua says he believes that with Telefonica's advanced technical support and management, as well as strong advertising and service, more people will be able to access CCTV's programs.

[ 本帖最后由 我爱拉芳 于 2008-11-5 10:07 编辑 ]

Cruise ship Oasis of the Sea under construction at the Aker Yards in Turku, Finland. Built for Royal Caribbean International, when she launches in November 2009, Oasis of the Seas will be the largest and most revolutionary cruise ship in the world. She will span 16 decks, encompass 220,000 gross registered tons (GRT), carry 5,400 guests and feature 2,700 staterooms. Oasis of the Seas will be the first ship to tout the cruise liner's new neighborhood concept of seven distinct themed areas, which include Central Park, Boardwalk, the Royal Promenade, the Pool and Sports Zone, Vitality at Sea Spa and Fitness Center, Entertainment Place and Youth Zone. The ship will sail from her home port of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. In 2010, she will be joined by a sister ship, Allure of the Seas.

Computer-generated images show Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise liner.

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A woman admires a candy dragon made of sweet potato sugar at Shiziqiao Food Street in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, November 3, 2008. The five-day-long food festival started on Monday in the eastern Chinese city.

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A sculpture carved from a pumpkin is displayed on a plate at Shiziqiao Food Street in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, November 3, 2008.

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Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday won more than 270 electoral votes out of a possible 538 to defeat Republican John McCain in the 2008 US presidential election.

The 538 members of the Electoral College, not the popular vote, actually elect the president of the United States. So when Americans cast their votes for president and vice president, they actually voting for the set of electors allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Following is the latest tally of projected electoral votes for Obama and McCain.

	Democrat Barack Obama	349 Electoral Votes
	Republican John McCain	163 Electoral Votes

States where McCain is projected to have won:

Kentucky 8	Georgia 15	South Carolina 8
Oklahoma 7	Tennessee 11	Wyoming 3
Alabama 9	North Dakota 3	West Virginia 5
Louisiana 9	Utah 5	Kansas 6
Arkansas 6	Texas 34	Mississippi 6
Idaho 4	Nebraska 5	South Dakota 3
Arizona 10	Alaska 3	Montana 3

States where Obama is projected to have won:

Connecticut 7	Delaware 3	District of Columbia 3
Illinois 21	Maryland 10	Massachusetts 12
Vermont 3	New Jersey 15	New Hampshire 4
Pennsylvania 21	Wisconsin 10	Michigan 17
New York 31	Rhode Island 4	Minnesota 10
Ohio 20	New Mexico 5	Iowa 7
Virginia 13	California 55	Washington 11
Oregon 7	Hawaii 4	Colorado 9
Florida 27	Nevada 5	Maine 4
Indiana 11

In 48 states and Washington, DC, the candidate who wins the popular vote wins all of the state's electors. Nebraska and Maine have a proportional system of awarding them.

The number of electors is equal to a state's number of representatives (based on population) and senators (two per state) in the US Congress. In addition, the District of Columbia has three Electoral College Votes.

Russian seamen line up on an unidentified submarine believed to be an Akula-class submarine during a military parade training in Vladivostok in this July 25, 2008 file photo. More than 20 people were killed and another 21 injured in an accident aboard a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, the navy said on Sunday, in the worst submarine disaster since the Kursk sank eight years ago. The RIA agency quoted a source in the Amur Shipbuilding Enterprise as saying the accident occurred aboard the Nerpa, a Project 971 Shchuka-B attack submarine, known inside NATO as an Akula-class submarine

"Many people think the economic boom will fizzle out shortly, but I think it is just beginning," says Wang Shi, a real estate tycoon in China.

Wang Shi

Wang Shi is a successful guy. Not a few of his peers view him as a model to emulate in all ways, even including his hobby of mountain climbing.
His character tallies with the spirit of our times: optimistic and active, adventurous and hardheaded, tough and curious. A peek into Wang's personal experience as a soldier, student, worker and businessman affords a revealing snapshot of modern China over last three decades.
He admitted in an interview with the Xinmin Weekly earlier this year that in his wildest imagination he had never dreamed of what he now has achieved

Exports continue to rise although growth has slowed because of the global economic downturn, according to Customs figures released on Tuesday.

Exports reached $128.3 billion in October, up 19.2 percent year-on-year, but down from the 21.5 percent increase for September and the 22.3 percent rise for the first three quarters of the year.

Experts say the data show that the fundamentals of the export sector are still good, but estimate that growth may drop in the coming months as the financial crisis spreads to the wider economy, and from developed economies to emerging ones.

October data show that exports are "still quite healthy considering the macro economic environment," said Gene Ma, a macro economic analyst with China Economic Business Monitor.

Despite weak demand from developed countries, the US in particular, trade with emerging economies has increased rapidly, according to the statistics.

Exports to the US rose by only 11.4 percent last month, but exports to Brazil spiked over 86.8 percent, and India, 39.8 percent.

Exports of mechanical and electrical products amounted to $693 billion for the first 10 months, a robust increase of 23.2 percent.

But exports of traditional products like garments and accessories increased only 2.8 percent year on year.

BERLIN – An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
While researchers, and the doctors themselves, caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.

German hematologists Eckhard Thiel, left, and Gero Huetter of Berlin's Charite Medical University attend a news conference about a successful treatment of a HIV infected patient in Berlin, on Wednesday, November 12, 2008. [Agencies]

Dr. Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.
"We waited every day for a bad reading," Huetter said.
It has not come. Researchers at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clean.

Ye Jinxiang couldn't hide her joy while talking about a phone call she received from Luwan District Housing Security Center on Oct 28. The 52-year-old retiree was told that her application for government low-rent housing aid had been approved, and she would get a monthly subsidy of at least 620 yuan ($90) from November.

This is what the old city center in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, looks like. About 7.47 million low-income families living in such tenements in China are expected to get bigger and better houses in the next three years, for which the government will spend 900 billion yuan on the national welfare housing program. [Zhang Heping]

That call meant a world to her, for she and her 19-year-old son can now move out of their dank 9.9-sq-m, second-floor tenement in Shanghai's Ruijin Road into a bigger flat.
Ye, a divorcee, has been living in the room for the past six months. A single bed and a table are all she has for furniture. To cook, she has to go down to the first floor and share a kitchen with other families.
The room is so small that she often has to spend the night at her mother's house. She returns the next morning to ensure that her son, who attends a university in Shanghai, gets whatever he needs. That's important for her because she wants him to concentrate on his studies.
All that will change now that she has been granted the government subsidy. She plans to lease out the room and move to a decent apartment, which she says would be a gift to her son.
Ye is one of the 7.47 million urban families that will benefit from the upgraded national welfare housing program, which will get 900 billion from the central government and local governments across the country between 2009 and 2011.