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AARP and the AARP Bulletin released the most comprehensive survey yet examining how boomers and their parents' generation are managing the current economic downturn, from paying for everyday necessities to changing their investment strategies.

At the end of December 2007, China's first International Olympic Committee's global cooperative TOP partner, Lenovo, announced it will exit the Olympic cooperative plan after 2008. Acer will take Lenovo's place. What's more, the competition between Acer and Lenovo is heating up in global PC market. Since Lenovo is quitting, China's sponsor enterprises are calmly examining the challenges and opportunities they face.

The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in March 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.1 percentage point lower than a year earlier.