Soldiers of Chinese navy special force carry out an anti pirate drill on the deck of DDG-171 Haikou destroyer in Sanya, capital of South China\s Hainan Province, on Dec. 25, 2008.

12月25日，在171舰“海口”号导弹驱逐舰的甲板上，威武的中国海军特战队员在军舰甲板上列队。

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Wall Street's Merrill Lynch reported on Dec 4 that if China has also been seriously effected by the global economic recession, crude oil price may break 25 U. S. dollars next year.

华尔街大行美林4日发布报告称，如果中国也受到全球经济衰退严重冲击，油价在明年可能跌破25美元。

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Huge swarms of stinging jellyfish and similar slimy animals are ruining beaches in Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, Australia and elsewhere, U. S. researchers reported on Dec. 12.

美国的研究员于12月12日声称：大量刺人的水母及和其类似的粘稠的动物正在破坏世界各地的海滩，夏威夷，墨西哥湾，地中海，澳大利亚以及世界上的其他很多地方都未能幸免。

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Creative Destruction at Warp Speed The position of the old American telephone companies today is much like IBM's and DEC's in the mid-1980s.

FORBES: Keep up or die

At the heart of the issue is the DEC's new method of handling press inquiries.

WSJ: NY's outdoors writers chafe at information squeeze

DEC's service organisation and its customer relationships, some of which have been cultivated since the days when vacuum tubes were still warm.

ECONOMIST: Compaq goes after Big Blue