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5:24 am
Sat November 10, 2012

Retro London Cabs On The Road Toward Extinction

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The company that makes London's iconic taxis has had financial difficulties, leaving cabbies in a lurch.
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Originally published on Sat November 10, 2012 1:54 pm

Cabbie John Crowood's traditional London taxi was one among hordes as he began trundling through the city's streets with so many other benevolent black beetles more than 30 years ago.

Today, he's one of a dwindling band. Crowood says that the only company that makes the classic retro London cab had to recall 400 of its newest vehicles after a mechanical defect was found, leaving hundreds of his fellow cabbies unable to ply their trade.

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Middle East
5:24 am
Sat November 10, 2012

As Turkey Rises, 'A Real Problem' With Censorship

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Kurdish women hold pictures of jailed journalists in Istanbul on Sept. 10, during the start of the trial of 44 journalists with suspected links to rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
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Originally published on Sat November 10, 2012 2:25 pm

Nearly two years ago, Soner Yalcin and more than a dozen of his employees at the online news outlet OdaTV joined the growing list of incarcerated Turkish journalists. Yalcin, the owner of OdaTV, is one of the sharpest critics of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.

As their trial proceedings dragged on, challenges to the state's case grew, and most of the outlet's journalists were released, pending the trial's conclusion. But Yalcin and two others remain behind bars, 22 months and counting.

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Religion
5:09 pm
Fri November 9, 2012

Church Of England Names New Top Cleric

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Originally published on Fri November 16, 2012 12:17 pm

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The Picture Show
4:38 pm
Fri November 9, 2012

The Art Of Chinese Propaganda

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"Beloved Chairman Mao, we are loyal to you forever." 1967
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"Long live Leninism, Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought!" 1971
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"Long live victory of Korean People's Army and Chinese People's Army." 1951
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"Silver ping-pong ball carries friendship." (Ping Pong Diplomacy) 1972
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"Founding of the People's Republic of China," 1st edition, 1953. (Note senior party official Gao Gang, who stands at the far right.)
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"Founding of the People's Republic of China," 3rd edition, 1978. (Note Gao Gang has disappeared. He was purged from the party and committed suicide in 1954.)
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Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. 1951
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"Firmly support U.S. people against U.S. imperialism invading Vietnam." 1966
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"The Tibetan people welcome the People's Liberation Army." (Tibet was essentially autonomous for decades before Chinese communist troops entered in 1950.)
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"John rides the ox and I am on the horse, what a shame if he wins the game." (Great Leap Forward) 1958
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"Keep on alert." 1971
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"Thoroughly smash the reactionary organization of 'proletarian union.' " 1967
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"The Red Detachment of Women (Modern Revolutionary Ballet)." 1970
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"Make contribution for the modernization of science and technology." 1978
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"Develop coal mining in the lower Yangtze Village to change the situation of transporting coal only from north to south." 1972
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"Mutual aid and mutual love to produce more actively." 1954
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An example of a Shanghai Lady poster from the 1930s
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"Pond is full of fish." 1987
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"Be ready always." 1989
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A 1967 poster declares, "Beloved Chairman Mao, we are loyal to you forever."
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A poster at the museum shows a Chinese man on horseback racing past a portly British soldier. The caption reads, "John rides the ox and I am the horse, what a shame if he wins the game."
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Originally published on Fri November 16, 2012 12:17 pm

The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center lies buried in an unmarked apartment building off the tree-lined streets of the city's former French Concession. There are no signs. You have to wend your way through apartment blocks, down a staircase and into a basement to discover one of Shanghai's most obscure and remarkable museums.

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The Salt
3:44 pm
Fri November 9, 2012

Sky-High Vegetables: Vertical Farming Sprouts In Singapore

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Mah Bow Tan, a member of Singapore's Parliament, inspects Chinese cabbage growing at the commercial vertical farm. Troughs of the veggies stack up to 30 feet in the greenhouse.
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Leafy Asian greens grow in Singapore's first commercial vertical garden.
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Troughs of bok choy stack up vertically at the 30-feet urban farm in Singapore. The veggies rotate along the A-frame to ensure they receive even lighting.
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An illustration of the 177-feet vertical farm by Plantagon currently in the works for Linkoping, Sweden.
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Senior Minister of State Lee Yi Shyan transplants some leafy green seedlings at the grand opening of Singapore's first commercial vertical farm.
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Troughs of bok choy stack up vertically at the 30-feet urban farm in Singapore. The veggies rotate along the A-frame to ensure they receive even light.
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By Michaeleen Doucleff

Singapore is taking local farming to the next level, literally, with the opening of its first commercial vertical farm.

Entrepreneur Jack Ng says he can produce five times as many vegetables as regular farming looking up instead of out. Half a ton of his Sky Greens bok choy and Chinese cabbages, grown inside 120 slender 30-foot towers, are already finding their way into Singapore's grocery stores.

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World
3:24 pm
Fri November 9, 2012

To Combat Sanctions, Iran Buys Up Gold

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Iranian women look at a jewelry shop display in Tehran, Iran, in 2010. Iran now appears to be stockpiling gold in an attempt to stabilize its economy, which has been hit hard by Western sanctions.
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Iranians make their way through Tehran's main bazaar. Iran's economy is under increasing strain, and its currency has fallen sharply.
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Originally published on Fri November 16, 2012 12:17 pm

Iran is stockpiling gold. That's the way David Cohen sees it. He's undersecretary of the Treasury, and the Treasury's point man for the banking sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Iran.

"Iran is attempting to hoard gold, both by acquiring it and by preventing the export of gold from Iran, in a somewhat desperate attempt to try and defend the value of its currency," Cohen says.

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Shots - Health News
3:18 am
Fri November 9, 2012

Stakes Rise In Malaria Battle As Cracks Appear In Drug's Armor

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This 5-year-old boy was carried to a Thai malaria clinic by his mother from deep inside Myanmar. If the mother had waited even a day longer, doctors say, the child probably would have died.
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Dr. Aun Pyae Phyo, who leads the Whampa malaria clinic on the Thailand-Burma border, says the number of malaria cases has dropped considerably over the past five years, but the remaining ones are harder to treat.
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A mother comforts her sick child at the Whampa malaria clinic on the Thailand-Burma border. Children under 5 years of age are especially vulnerable to the disease.
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Originally published on Thu November 15, 2012 3:25 pm

Malaria remains a huge problem in much of the world, but over the past decade the number of people getting sick and dying from the disease has gone down dramatically.

Health workers attribute much of this progress to the widespread use of artemisinin-based drugs. The problem now is that resistance to these drugs is starting to develop in Southeast Asia.

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Asia
3:16 am
Fri November 9, 2012

For China's Rising Leader, A Cave Was Once Home

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Xi Jinping (left) who is poised to become China's next leader, spent seven years living in a cave home in the 1960s and '70s after his father fell from power.
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Xi lived in the cave house on the far right, in Liangjiahe village in central China. After his father's political downfall in Beijing, his parents sent him there when he was 15 in 1968.
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Xue Yubin, 84, used to chat to the young Xi when they lived in the same village. Xue also knew Xi's father. "His lifestyle was like his father, both liked to be close to the masses," Xue says.
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Originally published on Sun November 11, 2012 9:47 pm

Far from the political theater of China's Communist Party Congress in Beijing this week is a cave that the country's next leader once called home.

Just 15 at the time, Xi Jinping was sent by his family in Beijing to the remote rural village Liangjiahe in the hills of Shaanxi Province, hundreds of miles away, where for seven years he lived in a cave scooped out of the yellow loess hillsides.

He arrived there in 1968, after his father, a revolutionary fighter and former vice premier, had fallen from political favor.

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World
4:32 pm
Thu November 8, 2012

Elated Kenyans Revel In Obama Win

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Kenyans dance at a watch party for the U.S. presidential election in Kogelo village, home to President Obama's step-grandmother. Kenyans were elated by the president's re-election.
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Originally published on Thu November 8, 2012 6:02 pm

As the news spread that the son of the late Barack Obama Sr. — a Kenyan government economist — had held on to the most powerful presidency in the world, the elation across this East African nation was contagious.

One Nairobi radio DJ could scarcely contain himself on Wednesday. "How are your feelings this morning, this Obama Day morning? Talk to me and share your feelings with me," he said.

High Hopes For A Long-Expected Visit

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4:07 pm
Thu November 8, 2012

Mali In Danger Of Turning Into Terrorist Safe Haven

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Originally published on Thu November 8, 2012 6:02 pm

The U.S. and France are trying to figure out a way to make sure Northern Mali, which has been overrun by Islamists, doesn't turn into another Somalia or Yemen. But experts say there are no easy answers. Armed drones or special forces may not be enough. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Algeria last week to try to persuade its leaders to use their influence and military might to help rid Northern Mali of al-Qaida in the Maghreb.

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