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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

by THE AMERICAN last modified Monday, October 6, 2008

The closing of a big tobacco factory in the Dutch town of Zevenaar ‘marks not only the end of a major source of employment in the area but also the final curtain for an unusual piece of Dutch art history’…Wilson Center scholar Murray Feshbach says that Russia is ‘facing a public health crisis that verges on the catastrophic’…Last week, without much fanfare, the Bush administration scored a ‘big foreign policy win’…The ongoing financial crisis has made 2008 ‘the best year ever for options traders’…Will a slowing economy spur Chinese officials to embrace needed reforms?

The closing of a big tobacco factory in the Dutch town of Zevenaar ‘marks not only the end of a major source of employment in the area but also the final curtain for an unusual piece of Dutch art history’. . .

Wilson Center scholar Murray Feshbach says that Russia is ‘facing a public health crisis that verges on the catastrophic’. . .

Last week, without much fanfare, the Bush administration scored a ‘big foreign policy win’. . .

The ongoing financial crisis has made 2008 ‘the best year ever for options traders’. . .

Will a slowing economy spur Chinese officials to embrace needed reforms?

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