Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page
Fancy reading my Looking for the Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...
Hilary assures me that interpreters seldom have problems translating explicit sexual or biological references into sign. In fact, the only nightmare for people in her line of work is innuendo. Sign language doesn't do double entendre, so Hilary steers clear of farce or panto.
Another problem for negative reputations is that negative is subjective. What is perfectly reasonable in one culture may bring a death sentence in another. However, there are some important, well-defined transactions where there is a widely agreed use of historical information. For example, for those who extend credit (and keep in mind, credit is implicit in most contracts), borrowers who have not paid their bills in the past are universally a negative. Being on the receiving end of a computer virus is practically always a negative. And so on.
imagine getting the news and assignments for each of your kids classes each day aggregated into one page or e-mail!
"Foreign bosses, they don't have time to remember all these Chinese names," Sun said. "If you have a name the boss can remember, you have more of a chance for the boss to choose you for a certain kind of work -- and then maybe get promoted."
The Development Research Centre, which is linked to the State Council, China's cabinet, puts urban unemployment at 10% and warns it could rise to 15% in the next few years. The DRC and Asian Development Bank estimate there are 37 million urban poor--12% of the urban population.
After signing on to the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, Mexico began pursuing an economic strategy that was more Asian than Latin American, and that would put it on a collision course with China. By transforming itself into a platform for low-cost exports to the rich nations of the world -particularly the United States- Mexico has become, in effect, the China of Latin America.[...] Some feared that rising Mexican wages were pricing the country out of the market, but the wages have not been rising dramatically relative to China's, experts say. Today the average maquiladora worker in Mexico earns about $1.40 an hour, compared with 50 cents in China. Some top Mexican officials now believe that China&'s aggressive factory-recruiting campaign played an important role. [...] Awareness of Mexico's untenable position is growing. The answer is a direct echo of what Asian nations like Taiwan and Korea have known (and worried about) for years: the only way to compete with China is to stay one step ahead of it in technology. That's increasingly difficult. China now makes everything from low tech (toys and textiles) to high tech (fast computer chips), leaving few niches empty for the taking. [...] Trade is not a zero-sum game, and fortunes rise and fall.
City officials say the mine-victims, landless farmers and orphans who make their living begging on street corners will be unceremoniously removed from the view of the international guests, sweeping past in air-conditioned jeeps to plush hotels.
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