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NEW YORK NYTimes.com kept its strong lead in February as the top newspaper Web site, besting competitors across the country in unique audience, page views, and time spent per person on the site, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Rounding out the top five in uniques were USATODAY.com, washingtonpost.com, LATimes.com, and WSJ.com. The New York Times site (which has some articles behind the TimesSelect pay wall) attracted a unique audience of 12,960,000 users in February, who combined for 455,527,000 page views. USATODAY.com came in second with 9,050,000 unique visitors and 169,517,000 page views; the Washington Post's site had 8,030,000 readers and 154,836,000 views....

Dispelling the China markets myth Don't blame Tuesday's sell-off on the Middle Kingdom, says Fortune's Asia editor Clay Chandler, who argues that there is no reason that China should have such a big impact on U.S. trading. By Clay Chandler, Fortune February 28 2007: 12:42 PM EST HONG KONG (Fortune) -- It's the start of a new lunar calendar here in China and what better way to commence the Year of the Pig than with profit-taking stampedes on exchanges in Shenzhen and Shanghai that drag down markets around the globe? On Feb 27, China's domestic exchanges tanked nearly 9 percent,...

In announcing his resignation from the post of British foreign secretary out of opposition to the war with Iraq, Robin Cook said: "I have heard it said Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to complete disarmament, and that our patience is exhausted. Yet, it is more than 30 years since Resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. We do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of Israel to comply." British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Cook's successor as foreign secretary, Jack Straw, have made similar statements, alleging a "double...