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<description><![CDATA[In keeping with a China Blog tradition, I'll sign off with a photo from the bureau window. Only this time there's no snarl of cars to be seen. Amazing how a few tanks (they're practicing today for the Oct. 1 National Day parade) can clear out traffic.

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<description><![CDATA[We've had a good run, but alas, the China Blog is indeed shutting down. Come visit us elsewhere on Time.com. You'll find most of our stories on the World and Magazine pages, ie the current issue of Time Asia includes the China 60th anniversary cover package. And if you want to respond to any of [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end and, sadly, that applies to the China Blog too, which will shutter at the end of today. I and my colleagues have thoroughly enjoyed doing this (mostly) and equally been interested to get feedback from readers. There  was a lot of puerile drivel, too (you know who you [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese artist Ai Weiwei underwent cranial surgery this week in Munich to treat lingering pain he's suffered since being punched by a Chengdu police officer last month. (He's posted pre- and post-surgery photos on his Twitter page.) Ai, who organized a campaign to tally student deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake, was detained with other [...]]]></description>
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<title>A Family Journey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Heads up: here's my essay in this week's TIME Asia, about why, after nearly 100 years, China is suddenly honoring my great-grandfather.
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<description><![CDATA[Small shops in China can change their operations with remarkable frequency. In a matter of weeks this summer I've witnessed a storefront near my home in Beijing's Dongsi area transform from the mundane to the salacious.  For more than a year the shop was a dingy general store filled with military surplus goods, toiletries [...]]]></description>
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<title>The New Normal For Urumqi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It has been a tense few days in Urumqi, the western Chinese city that saw renewed unrest last week, two months after rioting left nearly 200 dead. Late Friday the government said five people had been killed during the previous week's unrest, including two "innocent civilians." On Saturday it announced that Urumqi's Communist Party Secretary [...]]]></description>
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<title>More Unrest in Troubled Xinjiang Region</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The details of recent violence in Urumqi are surprising, but the news of further unrest in the capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang region isn't. State media reported that police arrested 15 people this week for attacks using syringes.
Possibly in response to those stabbings, residents of the city gathered today to protest poor security conditions, the [...]]]></description>
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<title>Why China Could Turn Green</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Austin was in Guizhou last weekend to interview Tony Blair and Jet Li for this piece: Why China Could Turn Green. (Read Time Asia's 2008 cover story on Jet Li here)
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<description><![CDATA[China wants Puer tea to become an international favorite--but first it must overcome fraud, fakes and foreign competition. Here's Emily Rauhala's full piece.
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<description><![CDATA[All the news as Iran continues to defy the west over nuclear weapons - following the disputed presidential election]]></description>
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<title>How the world was connected</title>
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<description><![CDATA[See how the global broadband network has grown rapidly]]></description>
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<title>Swine flu map</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The spread of swine flu across the world]]></description>
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<title>Military fatalities </title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The political make-up of the EU parliament]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Reports, graphics, video and maps looking at the impact of the global recession. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Find out about all the issues in the run up to the UN climate change conference ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Latest news and global reaction to the outbreak of potentially deadly swine flu in Mexico
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<description><![CDATA[News, background and analysis about the 2009 presidential and provincial elections in Afghanistan]]></description>
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<title>Moon landing 1969</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Features, video and graphics on the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing.]]></description>
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<title>Struggle for Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In-depth coverage and analysis of the ongoing conflict]]></description>
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<title>Background guides: Country history, politics and economics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Background guides: Country history, politics and economics]]></description>
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<title>The End</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix on Aline Kominsky Crumb's New Memoir]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix annual top ten]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix on three scary books from Japan]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Book-length comics with brains and heart. Oh, and all written by women]]></description>
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<title>War on Terror; The Terror of War</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix on The 9/11 Report and The Pride of Baghdad]]></description>
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<title>No Need for Sensationalism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix reviews a pair of childhood memoirs]]></description>
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<title>On Your Mark!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The inaugural comix of new publisher First Second]]></description>
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<title>Return of the Kings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix on the lost Kings in Disguise]]></description>
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<title>Lost in Mexico</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix on Jessica Abel's new novel, La Perdida]]></description>
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        Military trying to find motive behind Fort Hood shooting rampage that killed 13, wounded 30</title>
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<description><![CDATA[FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) &#8212; Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.


   
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        Senate extends home-buyer tax credit and jobless aid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The measure is expected to be approved by the House and signed by Obama within days. It is aimed at giving the real estate market an added boost and would expand the credit to existing homeowners.
                        
                    
                    
                        Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington Alejandro Lazo -- Moving to shore up a still shaky economic recovery, the Senate unanimously agreed Wednesday to extend jobless benefits, continue the popular tax credit for first-time home buyers and offer a new tax break to homeowners who want to move up.


   
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        AARP backs House health-care bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As House Democrats prepare to vote Saturday on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's healthcare system, they picked up an important endorsement today from the 40-million member AARP, the nation's largest senior citizens group.


   
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        Ex-NYC Police Commissioner Kerik pleads guilty to lying to White House, tax crimes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) &#8212; Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik admitted in court Thursday that he lied to the White House while being considered for chief of Homeland Security.


   
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        Ida weakens to tropical storm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ida, which made landfall earlier today as a Category 1 hurricane in Nicaragua, has been downgraded to a tropical storm and is likely to weaken further to a tropical depression tomorrow.


   
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        Relief as Fla. infant missing for 5 days is found alive, hidden in box under baby sitter&#x27;s bed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CHIPLEY, Fla. (AP) &#8212; Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed. Clothing was packed around it to muffle any sounds and baking soda placed inside to mask the stench of dirty diapers.


   
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        Rihanna says going back to Chris Brown after beating is &#x27;not what I want to teach people&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Rihanna said Thursday that she regrets going back to ex-boyfriend Chris Brown after he left her bruised and battered during a February assault, warning other women facing domestic violence to not let themselves become blinded by love.


   
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        Hundreds of U.N. staffers temporarily leaving Afghanistan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[United Nations officials say the deadly attack last week on an agency guesthouse in Kabul has prompted a review of security for U.N. workers.
                        
                    
                    
                        The United Nations is temporarily pulling hundreds of staff members out of Afghanistan while it reviews security arrangements in the wake of an attack by militants on a Kabul guesthouse last week that killed five U.N. employees, officials said today.


   
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        Obama to sign bill extending jobless benefits, homebuyer tax credit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.


   
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        Message for 2010: Voters want jobs and competence, not political bickering</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Voters' memo to politicians: We're angry and fearful, mostly about jobs and the economy. We want tangible solutions, not partisan bickering or intraparty spats. And we'll vote either party out of office if we don't think you're listening.


   
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