TOKYO — The Obama administration is committing huge sums of money to rescuing banks, but the veterans of Japan’s banking crisis have three words for the Americans: more money, faster. The Japanese have been here before. They endured a “lost decad...
DUBAI , United Arab Emirates — Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai’s fast-growing economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a 15-year mortgage....
By any normal political standards, this week’s Congressional agreement on an economic stimulus package was a great victory for President Obama. He got more or less what he asked for: almost $800 billion to rescue the economy, with most of the money...
Increasingly, many older people who live alone are not truly alone. They are being watched by a flurry of new technologies designed to enable them to live independently and avoid expensive trips to the emergency room or nursing homes . Berth...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden joined a large jubilant crowd in an open-air welcome concert here Sunday afternoon, kicking off four-day inauguration celebrations in the city. Obam...
A Continental commuter plane coming in for a landing nose-dived into a house in suburban Buffalo, sparking a fiery explosion that killed all 49 people aboard and a person in the home. It was the nation's first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in...
英国是已开发国家，但是专家估计全国竟然有300万人营养不良，或是面临营养失调的危险。 这次的估计数字是目前为止最全面的。英国肠外与肠内营养营养协会（British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition）的专家把医院的病人和安养院的住户都计算在内。...
