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After 30 years of prohibiting couples from having more than one child, China may loosen the reins. Melinda Liu, Newsweek's Beijing correspondent looks at the changing of an unpopular law.

This Is What I Want Three-Year-Olds Doing...

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Bolivia's first indigenous president, whose striped sweater became his emblem, is marking his second year in office with greater state control over the oil and gas industry and a new draft constitution. But the accomplishments of Evo Morales have also exposed deep ethnic and class divides inside the nation.

As San Diegans face water restrictions, we'll look at how homeowners can make water-wise choices for their landscaping.

Lately I've been thinking about how I often write about the symbiotic relationship between managing and parenting. There are skills used at home that are transferable to the workplace; you're often learning as much about yourself on-the-job as you are as a parent. While I haven't changed my mind about my belief in the symbiosis, some recent experiences have made me aware that while a working mother can wear many hats, it's often inconvenient to wear them at the same time.

Oil prices have more than quadrupled since 2002 and seem to be heading in only one direction: up. High oil prices affect everyone from a factory worker in China to a farmer in Iowa. Expect to pay more for gas, airline tickets, food and heating.

As oil prices flirt with $90 a barrel and the U.S. dollar sinks, world financial leaders are in Washington, D.C., for International Monetary Fund talks. Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, offers her insights on the state of the global economy.

A federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Education accuses the state of censorship and political interference for using the word "genocide" in its high school curriculum to describe the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in Turkey during World War I. Plaintiffs in the suit say that designation is up for debate - but opponents say the evidence of genocide is clear.

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