When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its regional and state unemployment numbers today, Texas got a bit of bad news.

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When Beijing Railway Bureau opened online ticket sales in January, 350 people booked train seats in the first five days.

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Americans were similarly astounded this week when the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared that the Great Recession was over as of June 2009 and that economy has been in an expansion mode since that point.

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