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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:00:00 EST In China, business people get a new kind of cultural re-education |
| SHANGHAI—In a conference room at the Four Seasons hotel, a cultural transformation is occurring over tea and cookies. Eight Chinese adults take turns standing uncomfortably on a chair, while a bossy Japanese woman looks them over one by one and gives them a grade on their appearance. A middle-aged Chinese executive with permed hair climbs unsteadily onto the chair. She wears an all-purple outfit with a big plastic pink flower pinned to her bosom. The teacher tells her to get rid of the flower and replace it with a real white one. There are urgent whispers all around. |
| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:00:00 EST Media Takes |
| Al Hunt, 63, has been a Washington fixture almost since the day he took over the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau more than two decades ago. And his trademark shock of thick white hair and genial demeanor became familiar to political junkies across the country during his 16 years as a commentator on CNN's Sunday politics roundtable The Capital Gang, which was canceled last year. |
| Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:00:00 EST Top tips on starting a business |
| You've got an idea for a new business. Alas, ideas are a dime a dozen. Here's how to turn your concept into a moneymaker. |
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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:48:13 GMT Insurgents Storm Iraqi Jail, 28 Killed
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 AP - Insurgents stormed a jail about dawn Tuesday in the Sunni Muslim heartland north of Baghdad, killing at least 17 policemen and a courthouse guard. Authorities said all 33 prisoners in the lockup were freed and 10 attackers were killed in the battle.
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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:14:20 GMT Report Says Airlines Lost 30M Bags in 2005
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 AP - If you've ever been frustrated after an airline lost your luggage, you're in the good company of millions of others. An estimated 30 million bags were temporarily lost by airlines in 2005, and 200,000 of those bags were never reunited with their owners, according to an industry report released Monday.
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| Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:57:59 GMT Troops Help 7,000 Displaced by Cyclone
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 AP - Troops began delivering aid Tuesday to an estimated 7,000 people who lost their homes to the cyclone that battered Australia's northeastern coast.
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