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China is poised to become the world's largest economy within a decade, according to some economists. Rising giant India already has a middle-class population that is larger than the entire United States population, according to others.

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The I-Ching explainedupdated: Tue Sep 16 2008 21:18:00

I-Ching or the "Book of Changes" is an ancient Chinese divination manual and a book of wisdom which interprets hexagrams (symbols made up of six stacked horizontal lines) formed by tossed coins to form answers to questions about the future.

Commentary: Immigration's yin and yangupdated: Mon Mar 31 2008 13:13:00

Not long ago, I got an illuminating e-mail from a woman who went off about how the federal government had to stop the "invasion" of illegal immigrants from Mexico and how the Mexican government had to stop its people from crossing into the United States without proper documents.

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Beijing city guideupdated: Thu Dec 07 2006 09:57:00

Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Chinese capital and send us your own ideas and suggestions.

Fortune: BOOKS BOSSES READ Chiefs' choices reveal strong passions and surprising eccentricities. Favorites range from Taoism to the Bibleupdated: Mon Apr 27 1987 00:01:00

AFTER A CHIEF EXECUTIVE finishes the giant helping of reading he is required to consume, it seems remarkable that he would have any appetite left. But as FORTUNE found in an informal survey, many C...

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