Decades of Communist rule and recent pell-mell development, far from uprooting the male bias in the Chinese countryside, have yielded new pressures to have sons.
Builders, in the meantime, purchase these development credits from the farmers and use them to receive bonus density credits for housing developments far from the farms.
Mr. Nelson and others warn that suburbia's least desirable neighborhoods -- aging, middle-class tract-home developments far from city centers and mass transit lines -- are America's emerging slums, characterized by poverty, crime and other social ills.
While Tuesday's development was far from the final blow for BP, the withdrawal of BP's technical staff undermined the original rationale for the partnership.
For an example of what can go wrong, local environmentalists point to the Panhandle development not far from the St. Joe land, which stretches, with notable interruptions, from Walton County, west of Panama City, inland to Tallahassee, the state capital.
In the gilded lobby of the Emirates Palace hotel, Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, the crown prince, described his vision for Saadiyat Island, a twenty-seven-billion-dollar development not far from the city's downtown.
Starting in the 1980s, many black families began moving to new developments far away from the urban core, buying up affordable and sprawling homes in then-growing cities like Riverside in the east and Palmdale in the north.
Much of this is in strong emerging economies and is tied to energy and other infrastructural developments far removed from the woes of American households that will have to settle for Formica counter tops this year instead of granite.
The $6.1 billion contract -- $3.6 billion for the fleet of 23 helicopters and the rest for research and development -- is far from the Pentagon's largest.
But in addition to ranking among the largest foreign investments in Bulgaria, the American Standard presence is one of the few to take development into areas far from the center of government in the capital, Sofia, or the trade and tourism center in Varna, Bulgaria's Black Sea port.
