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Archive for May 19th, 2009

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
Graduation is just a month away and millions of college students in China are expected to hit the streets during what is the country’s tightest job market in decades.
In anticipation of keen competition, most of this year’s 6.1 million graduates have been searching high and low for work the [...]

As the war in Afghanistan morphs into a drug war, the U.S. is shifting its tactics by trying to develop alternative crop programs for the world’s top opium producer. NBC News’ Jim Maceda reports.

VIDEO: Planting seeds of change in Afghan drug war…(read more)

By Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent  TEL AVIV – America has always related to Israel with the carrot, but now Israelis fear the stick will be President Barack Obama’s implement of choice. Maybe not right away, but soon.
As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (also known as “Bibi”) and Obama meet on Monday for [...]