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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission: To monitor, investigate, and submit to congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action.

The Commission released its 2008 Annual Report to Congress on November 20, 2008. The Commission cites Chinese cyber attacks, authoritarian rule, and trade violations as impedments to U.S. Economic and national security interests, and offers 45 recommendations to Congress.

50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2008
FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen

Perhaps the only thing more challenging than the business environment this year was the criteria for making the list, which, with eight newcomers, was our most competitive yet.

Sequoia Capital recently (October 2008) made a presentation to its portfolio companies about how to try to survive an economic downturn. Here's the presentation:

SUMMARY OF THE “EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008”

I. Stabilizing the Economy
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) provides up to $700 billion to the Secretary of the Treasury to buy mortgages and other assets that are clogging the balance sheets of financial institutions and making it difficult for working families, small businesses, and other companies to access credit, which is vital to a strong and stable economy. EESA also establishes a program that would allow companies to insure their troubled assets.

UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE COACHING ETHICS CODE

INTRODUCTION

This Ethics Code is intended to provide standards of professional conduct that can be applied by the USOC and its member organizations that choose to adopt them. Whether or not a coach has violated the Ethics Code does not by itself determine whether he or she is legally liable in a court action, whether a contract is enforceable, or whether other legal consequences occur. These results are based on legal rather than ethical rules. However, compliance with or violation of the Ethics Code may be admissible as evidence in some legal proceedings, depending on the circumstances.

This is the first in a series of New York Times articles that will look at how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read.

The DoD released the 2008 National Defense Strategy today. The strategy outlines the national approach to the defense of this nation and its interests.

The NDS is issued periodically and the last one was published in March 2005. It outlines how the Department supports the President’s National Security Strategy and informs the National Military Strategy and other subordinate strategy documents. The strategy builds on lessons learned and insights from previous operations and strategic reviews such as the 2006 QDR. (News Release, U.S. Department of Defense, July 31, 2008)

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Phallicism forms an integral part of nature worship, and as such will, if normal, possess a cult and a creed, though the latter may be in part or even entirely implied, and can then be elicited only by questions put to the devotees. The content of its religious consciousness may then be compared with absolute religion, and finally it may be tested for conduct. These four spheres of religious activity suggest a convenient scheme for tabulating data, and will now be considered in the order named.

THE Chinese have a keen sense of the ludicrous. They like a good joke and make very good ones. We see more smiling faces in China than in most European countries. With ready wit a foreigner who has to deal with Chinese people may win his cause more easily than by long arguments.