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Using caution with bubble type internet stocks, stocks with no profits, real estate with large price jumps is suggested by experts. Models and methods have been developed to detect bubble type activity. Sornette at the Financial Crisis Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Bank of Finland's Taipalus have developed models to detect bubbles, including the bubble activity in internet IPO's and stocks in 2014. Chancellor at Boston asset manager GMO and Utkus at the Vanguard Center of Retirement Research have also come up with methods to detect bubble activity. Utkus says investors could reduce allocation by 10-20% in the case of stocks with bubble activity. Investors were doing this by reallocating in April 2014 from biotech and internet stocks to safer large cap stocks, because internet and biotech stocks had seen sharp increases of over 25% in a short period.

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Alison Smale describes a perception of German preference for "order" and "peace and quiet" in its response to the Ukraine crisis. He describes how Germans responded first to the news of NSA surveillance of Angela Merkel's phone, and then to the crisis in Ukraine. German public opinion has preferred a policy of diplomacy and engagement with Russia- letting Russia vent its feelings about NATO enlargement to its borders something American respected diplomat Kennan suggested avoiding- to resolve the crisis without disturbing the economic relationships built up over many decades and different administrations, from the time of Willy Brandt and Kohl to the present day.

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An official report after a 7 year survey finds 19.4% of arable land in China is polluted. The pollution comes for the most part from inorganic materials such as heavy metals cadmium, nickel which are byproducts of mining. Pollution is severe in the Pearl River Delta in the south, in Yangtze River Delta in the east, and in older industrial zones in the north east. Earlier efforts to get this data were stymied by some officials calling it a state secret about the time of the discovery of cadmium contaminated rice in Hunan province. China's 334 million acres of arable land, according to the most recent land survey at the end of 2012, is only 37 million acres above the minimum considered necessary to feed the large population, making this a major issue for China.

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The influence of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a generation of Chinese writers after the stifling of culture and personal expression by the Cultural Revolution.

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Newspapers slant is influenced as much by reader preferences and bias as by the political identity of the newspaper. This is one of the research findings in a 2010 paper by Gentzkow and Shapiro. Gentzkow, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, was given the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association.

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A report issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Land Resources showing that 19.4% of China's arable land was polluted.