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Archive for March 26th, 2009

A report by the Government Accountability Office, says the U.S. pullout of 140,000 troops from Iraq will be a “massive and expensive effort.” The GAO says that the withdrawal will likely increase Iraq-related costs over the next several years rather than decrease expenses.
NBC News’ Steve Wende reports on the cost of packing-up all of [...]

26 Mar, 2009

Tibet, no; climate change, yes!

Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News

By NBC News Bo Gu
BEIJING – When American laser-graffiti artist James Powderly was arrested and jailed for six days in Beijing during the Olympics last August for plotting to project the words “Free Tibet” on a building near Tiananmen Square, he probably wouldn’t have imagined that half a year later Greenpeace China would be allowed to do something similar – only [...]