Page A7: Nations with the amount of public debt, as a percentage of GDP:
Japan 172.1% with the greatest other than Zimbabwe's 265.6%
Singapore 99.2%
United States 37.5%
Source: World Fact Book.
The readers can detect such as the so-called basis but it is only a rough yardstick to indicate the state of the economy.(sic)
Page A14: With Photo of Tai Shan, the first surviving giant panda cub born at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., USA.
Claudia McMurray of Great Falls wrote a letter to the Editor: "When I served as assistant secretary of state for oceans, environment and science, the US signed an agreement with China to expand protections of endangered species in China and around the world. As Tan Shan departs, it would ease the loss if the National Zoo could help implement this agreement by ramping up work to save the giant panda in China -work that could result in the panda's removal from the endangered species list. In exchange, China could agree to extend the stay of Tai Shan's parents in hopes that there would be another cub to delight us again.
The Panda caretakers must work hard to encourage the arrival of another cub but the Panda couple must work hard themselves to get a new cub. That is a matter of serendipity. Let us wish Tai Shan's parents all the success to have another cub in order to be able to entertain the kids and adults who love to see a new cub soon!? In the meantime,let us look at the photo of Panda to enjoy the loving animal with black and the white in the land of multi-colored homosapiens in the light vein.
Francis Shieh aka Xie Shihao enjoying the colorful America of falling leaves in the Autumn of 2009. December 12, 2009 at 10.16 a.m.
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