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  • Beijing to give clearer indication of air quality

    Beijing authorities have completed a network of monitors that will more accurately measure air quality in the smog-ridden city after being pushed into it by public pressure and pollution reports from the U.S. embassy.


  • Beijing to more accurately monitor air quality

    Beijing authorities have completed a network of monitors that will more accurately measure air quality in the smog-ridden city after being pushed into it by public pressure and pollution reports from the U.S. embassy.


  • Sean Irvin looks for a telephone at a Best Buy on Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. A land-line phone is one of the things on which Mr. Irvin plans to spend his yearly Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

    Alaskans to get $878 each in yearly oil wealth payout

    Buy an iPhone 5 or replace the leaky rain gutters? Splurge or save? Ah, the tough choices that befall Alaskans every year when they get their dividend checks from the state's oil savings account just for living here.


  • Alaskans await annual dividend check

    Buy an iPhone 5 or replace the leaky rain gutters? Splurge or save? Ah, the tough choices that befall Alaskans every year, when they get their dividend checks from the state's oil savings account just for living here.


  • Online and outspoken: China's microblog craze

    China's Twitter was raucous Thursday with horn-tooting over Beijing's gold rush at the London Olympics, a digital reflection of the nation's exuberant mood _ embellished with flashing emoticons. Earlier passions have been ignited on the site by a deadly high speed rail crash and outrage over factory pollution.


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