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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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<title>Farewell!</title>
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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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<title>A Beijing-style Variety Store</title>
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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[Full coverage and analysis of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen]]></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[Database of teenagers violently killed in the UK]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Features, analysis and images twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall.]]></description>
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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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<description><![CDATA[Reports, graphics, video and maps looking at the impact of the global recession. ]]></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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<description><![CDATA[In-depth coverage and analysis of the ongoing conflict]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Background guides: Country history, politics and economics]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[TIME.comix on Aline Kominsky Crumb's New Memoir]]></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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<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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        Iran test-fires its most advanced missile, capable of striking Israel, SE Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran (AP) &#8212; Iran on Wednesday test-fired an upgraded version of its most advanced missile, which is capable of hitting Israel and parts of Europe, in a new show of strength aimed at preventing any military strike against it amid the nuclear standoff with the West.


   
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        Copenhagen climate talks deadlocked; police fire pepper spray, beat protesters; 230 detained</title>
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<description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN (AP) &#8212; Police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside the U.N. climate conference Wednesday, as disputes inside left major issues unresolved just two days before world leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming.


   
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        Obama writes letter to North Korea&#x27;s Kim Jong-Il in effort to restart nuclear talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as part of an intense effort to draw the reclusive nation back to nuclear disarmament talks, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.


   
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        Microsoft to offer up to 12 browsers under binding deal to avoid new EU fines</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS (AP) &#8212; The European Union has dropped long-standing antitrust charges against Microsoft Corp. after the company agreed to give users of the Windows operating system a choice of up to 12 other Web browsers.


   
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        Illinois Prison For Guantanamo Detainees Faces Tough Vote In Congress</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the White House detailed its plans Tuesday to move terrorism suspects to a prison in rural Illinois, congressional opponents emerged as a new obstacle in President Obama's way as he tries to shutter the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention center.


   
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        Traffic accidents are blamed on energy-efficient traffic lights getting covered with snow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE (AP) &#8212; Cities around the country that have installed energy-efficient traffic lights are discovering a hazardous downside: The bulbs don't burn hot enough to melt snow and can become crusted over in a storm &#8212; a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.


   
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        Obama &#x27;cautiously optimistic&#x27; about health-care</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The White House struggles to hold a Senate compromise together.
                        
                    
                    
                        President Barack Obama, acknowledging that he will have to accept serious compromises in the passage of a health-care overhaul, insisted today that he will not let the public down on an issue that he has made the centerpiece of his first-year domestic agenda.


   
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        Senate rejects importation of prescription drugs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The proposal had threatened to derail the Democrats' landmark healthcare bill. Meanwhile, Obama and many liberals back the decision to drop the 'public option.'
                        
                    
                    
                        In a victory for President Obama and his allies in the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate today turned aside a bid by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to make it easier to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and Western Europe -- a proposal that threatened to derail the Democrats' landmark healthcare bill.


   
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        Evangelist Oral Roberts, pioneer of televangelism who founded university, dies at age 91</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TULSA, Okla. (AP) &#8212; Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium &#8212; and his message of God's healing power &#8212; to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.


   
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        Report: Moving van spotted in Tiger Woods&#x27; driveway</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is Tiger Woods &#8212; or Elin Nordegren Woods &#8212; moving?


   
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