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President Barack Obama, in his Asia tour, takes steps one by one. In his meeting with Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, he told addressing G20, "We still have a lot of work to do...one of the key steps is putting in place additional tools to encourage balanced and sustainable growth." "We have not yet achieved that balanced growth," Obama said, citing that some countries were intervening in currency markets to maintain an advantage, without naming names.

The United States' ultra-loose monetary policy is sending a flood of cash looking for higher returns in emerging markets such as Indonesia, leaving them grappling with surging currencies that can hurt their exports, while the U.S. wants China to let its currency rise faster to reduce Beijing's trade advantage.

Obama said G20 progress would not happen "all at once" and the U.S. was not looking to contain China. "We want China to succeed and prosper. It's good for the United States if China continues on the path of development that it is on," he said.

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Denver Broncos again comes into the highlight because of their most recent trade Peyton Hillis. Hillis lit up the stat line again yesterday. Right about now, the Broncos could sure use his power, sure hands, and explosiveness. Hillis would be a player who almost singlehandedly destroyed Hoodie Sr. and the Patriots, en route to 220 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns – a guy who through eight games is on pace to rush for 1,288 yards and score 16 total touchdowns.

Though McDaniels never took the time to try and know what Hillis was capable of accomplishing. Despite Hillis’ five yards per carry average and five TDs in a meager 68 rushing attempts in 2008, he didn’t get a sniff when McDaniels took over. Instead, the new regime, in its infinite wisdom, went out of its way to try almost anyone at running back other than Hillis. They drafted Knowshon Moreno, signed J.J. Arrington, and scooped up injury-addled veterans Correll Buckhalter and LaMont Jordan, into the abyss Hillis went, never to be heard from again in 2009, save for 13 meaningless carries in 14 games.The truth is, McDaniels never believed in Hillis but Hillis keeps believing in himself and success caught in his hand.

Hindsight is cruel in the NFL, and Hillis’ success is downright merciless for a Broncos team that can’t run the football (last in the NFL heading into this weekend) and has watched Moreno struggle to stay on the field.Turn back into form, Hillis would be the terrible weapon for Denver Broncos and they could make better performance in rest of the NFL 2010. Read More......

The U.S.A. goes moved to ban gay! Recently Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary, asked Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military. Gates sounded optimistic that the current Congress would use a brief postelection session to get rid of the law known as "don't ask, don't tell." "I would like to see the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" but I'm not sure what the prospects for that are," Gates said Saturday, as he traveled to defense and diplomatic meetings in Australia.
The current, Democratic-controlled Congress has not acted to lift the ban, which President Barack Obama promised to eliminate. In his postelection news conference Wednesday, Obama said there would be time to repeal the ban in December or early January, after the military completes a study of the effects of repeal on the front lines and at home. Gates also urged the Senate to ratify a stalled arms control treaty with Russia before the end of the current legislative session in January. "Partly I think things will depend on our assessment next spring and early summer of how we're doing," Gates said. "I think that will have the biggest impact on the president's decision in terms of the pacing."
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