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(CNN) -- One man's trash is another man's mystery.

Nick DiMola holds what he believes are about 60 artifacts and pieces of artifacts from Mexico.

Five years ago, Nick DiMola's rubbish removal company was hired to clean out a Manhattan apartment following the death of the owner, abstract artist Clinton Hill. The contents of a barrel that DiMola salvaged from the trash then has today raised a series of questions.

What DiMola holds are about 60 artifacts and pieces of artifacts that he thinks are from Mexico, dating to between 300 B.C. and 500 A.D.

The mystery, which the Mexican Consulate in New York is trying to solve, is twofold: How much are the artifacts worth? And, if authentic, whom do they belong to?

DiMola first saw the collection of pottery and figurines while cleaning Hill's apartment in 2004. He stored the barrel in his warehouse instead of disposing of it, then promptly forgot about it.

Last week, DiMola rediscovered the pieces, only this time he told the New York Daily News about what he had found, announcing that he would sell them. That caught the attention of the Mexican government, which is studying the origins of the items and has claimed them.

Now, DiMola wants to donate his find, but not necessarily to Mexico, he told CNN.

The Queens native was excited about his discovery when he allowed representatives from the Mexican Cultural Institute to examine and photograph nearly all the pieces, DiMola said.

His curiosity about them was growing, and he was expecting an appraisal from the government officials. What he got instead was a heads-up about a possible petition to return the entire collection to Mexico.

"My reaction is that that is not very diplomatic," DiMola said. "It's a blow to the jaw."

Ruben Beltran, Mexico's consul general in New York, was not available for comment Tuesday. However in an interview with the U.S.-based Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, he said that if the pieces are part of Mexican culture, the government will try to get them back.

But as of now, no one is certain what the pieces are.

Howard Nowes, an ancient art dealer who does appraisals, examined a handful of the pieces that DiMola holds.

Nowes told CNN he saw a mix of authentic and non-authentic pre-Columbian pieces, which he valued at $3,000.

The pieces were broken and weren't very artistic, he said, adding "from what I can see, it was mostly junk."

Unfazed, DiMola thinks all the pieces probably are worth more than $16,000 total, he said.

"Something like this, you can't put a price on, because I may have a figure that no one has seen before," DiMola said. "There's a big value in these pieces."

The Mexican government isn't taking any chances, and is conducting its own research into the authenticity and significance of the pieces.

Museums in Houston, Texas; San Francisco, California and Washington, D.C., have expressed interest in the pieces as well, DiMola said.

He said he'd like to donate the artifacts to museums across the country, and some to the Mexican Cultural Institute at the Mexican Consulate in New York City, but that could change if Mexico uses international law to claim the items.

The foundation that hired DiMola to clean the house is unlikely to try to reclaim the pieces, said John Koegel, the attorney who handled Hill's estate.

When Hill died, he left all his possessions to his lifelong partner, Allen Tran, Koegel told CNN.

In turn, Tran bequeathed all of Hill's possessions to a foundation "to carry out his artistic legacy," he said.

Hill had some pieces from Mexico in his apartment that were cataloged, but the artist had no strong connection to the country, Koegel said.

For DiMola, all the fuss stems from a simple truth.

"Sometimes you find things that are good and salvageable in the trash," he said.

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Washington (CNN) -- The FBI attained "actionable intelligence" from bombing suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab in the first hours after his arrest on Christmas Day, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

"AbdulMutallab spent a number of hours with FBI investigators in which we gleaned useable, actionable intelligence," Gibbs told reporters.

According to authorities, Nigerian-born AbdulMutallab tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear as a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, made its final approach to Detroit, Michigan, December 25. The device failed to fully detonate, instead setting off a fire at the man's seat.

Gibbs declined to elaborate on the nature of the intelligence. AbdulMutallab, 23, has been tied to the Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

In a statement to reporters after meeting with his national security team, President Obama said U.S. officials had enough information in their possession before the failed bombing attack to have prevented the suspect from getting on the plane, but had been unable to "connect the dots."

Obama said he could accept the imperfect nature of intelligence work, "but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged," he said, adding: "That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it."

"Time and again we've learned that quickly piecing together information and taking swift action is critical to staying one step ahead of a nimble adversary," Obama said. "So we have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly. American lives are on the line."

In one step, senior State Department officials told CNN on Tuesday that new criteria for information collected on possible terrorists would make it easier to ban them from U.S.-bound flights. Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the material, the officials said the United States has lowered the threshold for information considered important enough to put suspicious individuals on a no-fly list or revoke their visas.

If the new criteria had been in place before Christmas, AbdulMutallab would have been added to the no-fly list, the officials said.

AbdulMutallab is being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, where he's still being treated for the burn injuries he received in the failed bombing. He faces charges of attempting to destroy an aircraft, and will face his first court hearings Friday.

The suspect apparently arrived in Amsterdam already carrying the explosives he planned to use, Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday.

"The suspect traveled through Ghana before he arrived via Lagos [Nigeria] at Schiphol," prosecutors said, referring to the airport where AbdulMutallab boarded the flight to Detroit.

"So far, it seems he already had the explosives with him before he landed at Schiphol."

Also Tuesday, British officials announced that London's Heathrow Airport will introduce more body scanners within weeks, and that all British airports must have equipment to detect explosives by the end of the year.

British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the British government had no evidence AbdulMutallab had been planning an attack.

Johnson added that British authorities were directing airports to carry out more random searches of passengers because metal detectors cannot spot explosives without metal parts.

Last week, Obama blamed human error and security lapses for the failure by officials to act on information that AbdulMutallab was a possible terrorist threat.

He had a valid multiple-entry U.S. visa. His father, a leading banker in Nigeria, had warned U.S. authorities before the attack that his son might be involved with Islamic extremists, but the information failed to prompt a response such as canceling the visa.

Tuesday's White House meetings were held just hours after the United States reopened its embassy in Yemen. It's believed that AbdulMutallab may have received training in Yemen from the group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The United States' decision to close the embassy came after intelligence suggested that four al Qaeda operatives could have been planning an attack on the compound, a senior administration official said Monday.

A statement posted on the Embassy's Web site said "successful counter-terrorism operations" conducted by Yemeni security forces Monday north of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, addressed "a specific area of concern and have contributed to the Embassy's decision to resume operations."

Yemen's state-run news agency, SABA, reported Monday that two al Qaeda suspects were killed and two others were injured in clashes with a Yemeni anti-terrorism unit.

CNN's Dan Lothian and Suzanne Malveaux in Washington, Per Nyberg in London, England, and Christian Purefoy in Lagos, Nigeria, contributed to this report.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- They've been teasing and tantalizing female readers with images of muscular men oozing sensuality and the pretty women they are destined to save and then fall in love with. The "beefcakes and bodices" book covers have helped Harlequin sell their romance novels for more than half a century.

Powerful men and demure women were stock in trade in early Harlequin novels.

"It's always great to feel like you're the girl in the book and the handsome guy is coming to rescue you," said Liz Lenz, 25, who has been reading Harlequin novels since she was a teen. "It's always fun for the reader."

Those covers also seduced Winnipeg, Canada, teacher Louann Bergen.

"There's usually good-looking males on the covers or something intriguing to make you want to read more," she said. "I guess they change with the times, but they still have that same allure and that same passion behind them."

As sort of a 60th anniversary gift to its faithful readers, Harlequin is displaying original artwork for its covers in an New York exhibit called "The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009."

And before you sniff disdainfully at romance novel art, be reminded: That artwork sells a lot of books. Romance fiction is responsible for $1.375 billion in book sales every year, according to Romance Writers of America. The organization says more than a quarter of all books sold are romance novels, satisfying 51 million readers every year.

The Harlequin exhibit comes from boxes and boxes of old novels that employees discovered at the company's headquarters in Toronto, Canada.

"I pawed through literally thousands of paintings," curator Elizabeth Semmelhack said, adding that she saw apparent shifts in women's historical desires began to emerge.  Watch the curator discuss some favorites Â»

"Rather than being retardataire [outdated], many of these images are extremely cutting edge," she said. "There are images of women doctors before women were really embraced by the workplace. There are women who are adventuring around the world before independence is really part of women's culture."

Many early Harlequin covers, like that of Elizabeth Houghton's "Island Hospital," in which a man, woman and grizzly bear stand poised in confrontation, depict more than one (fully clothed) character in the crux of a suspenseful moment.

"You don't know, is the couple going to get together? Is the hero going to save the heroine? The happy ending is not on the cover," Semmelhack explained.

The illustrations have changed their tone over the years. Where cover art used to hint at psychological intrigue, it's grown to instead promise a passionate physical conclusion.

"From the earliest covers, there's sort of an implied sexual tension, but there isn't much direct imaging of passion. That doesn't happen until the late '70s and into the '80s," she said. "By the time you hit the sexual revolution and passion becomes of primary importance on these covers, then that lover's embrace in many ways signals the happy ending right there on the front of the book."

And in recent decades, the once revolutionary depictions of the lovers' raw embrace have been reduced further.

"Today, covers might just be the undressed male body. He might even be headless. He's so truncated that all you're doing is looking at the object of desire, his masculinity."

Although Harlequin romances are predominantly written for and read by women, according to Semmelhack, the majority of the publisher's cover illustration artists have been male.

"It is interesting that you have men imaging female desire," she said. "It seems to work; the books certainly sell."

This year, Harlequin books, which publishes 1,200 new titles annually, reported first quarter earnings up more than 13 percent.

Debbie Macomber, who has published 153 books since 1983 -- and is most recently author of a May New York Times Harlequin best-seller, "Summer on Blossom Street." -- visited the "Heart of a Woman" exhibit on opening night.

"There were some that really made me laugh out loud," Macomber said. "It was amazing to see the role and the progression of the women's movement in the cover art itself. I get letters from 13-year-old girls and women who are in their 90s, and that's one of my goals as a writer: to write books that are relevant to my readers."

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(CNN) -- Facebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit.

Facebook now has 300 million users -- almost as many as the population of the United States.

That was the double-barreled announcement Tuesday from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who thanked the site's users for helping its online community cross the 300 million threshold. There are about 307 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

"We're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone," Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog.

"Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect, one of the things we think a lot about is how to make Facebook perform even faster and more efficiently as we grow," he wrote. "We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the Web."

The social networking site, while popular with its exploding user base, has struggled to turn a profit.

But Zuckerberg said the company became profitable last quarter, beating its goal of getting out of the red by the end of 2010.

"This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term," he wrote.

In July, the California startup company announced it had hit the 250 million-user mark, which indicates it has grown by 50 million users in two months. That's more than 800,000 new users per day.

About 70 percent of Facebook's users are outside the U.S., according to statistics posted by the company. The site started out as a portal for college students but has attracted the attention of baby boomers and older generations in recent years. Facebook says its fastest-growing demographic is people older than 35.  Watch Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook's marketing team talk about the milestone Â»

Over the past year, the social network has seen a challenge from Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site. Many bloggers see recent updates to Facebook's interface as copied from Twitter's stripped-down design.

As Facebook has grown, it also has drawn criticism from privacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, which says people on Facebook unwillingly give up personal information to advertisers and Facebook application developers.

In a video interview with Fortune, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Facebook gives its users robust privacy controls.

She also told Fortune that a new approach to online advertising has helped Facebook's revenue grow throughout the recession.

"Our advertisements are very much part of the user experience," she said. "So the same way you can RSVP for an event on Facebook -- you know, a party your friend might throw -- you can RSVP for a movie premiere. And that's really a movie advertisement saying, 'Our movie is opening this weekend. Do you want to go?' "

After Zuckerberg's blog post went up Tuesday, more than 500 Facebook users commented, largely cheering him on.

"i [heart] facebook. mark, you are my hero!" one user wrote.

"Today the Internet, tomorrow the world," said another.

Technology blogs jumped on the news from Facebook, which was posted about 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

MG Siegler at the blog TechCrunch wrote that it was inevitable that Facebook would pass the 300 million mark but that its finance news was more significant.

New technologies probably are helping Facebook keep its computer server costs down, which is important because Facebook stores a lot of data, he wrote. The site is effectively the largest photo-sharing site online, he said.

John Paczkowski, a writer for the Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD blog, said Facebook's financial announcement indicates the startup isn't thinking about selling out.

"It would seem then that Facebook has no interest whatsoever in selling itself off to Google or anyone else," he wrote. "It would much rather go public."

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britons including Prime Minister Gordon Brown have leapt to the defense of their creaking healthcare service after President Barack Obama's plans for a similar system in the United States were branded "evil" by Republicans.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a heartfelt message of support for the NHS via Twitter.

Tens of thousands of people have joined a Twitter group expressing pride in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), which offers free taxpayer-funded medical care to all British residents, while leading politicians have spoken out in support.

Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin earlier this week condemned Obama's plans to introduce a public heath insurance scheme as an "evil" move that would result in "death panels" deciding who would live or die.

Her criticism has been echoed by fellow Republicans in direct attacks on Britain's NHS. In an article, Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said British healthcare was run by "Orwellian" bureaucrats who put a price tag on life.

Sound off: What do you think of the British healthcare model?

The comments caused a storm of protest in the United Kingdom, with Prime Minister Brown wading into the argument via micro-blogging site Twitter, where a conversation chain, "#welovetheNHS", is generating huge online traffic.  Britons react to the U.S. healthcare debate Â»

A posting on the 10 Downing Street Twitter site on Wednesday read: "PM: NHS often makes the difference between pain and comfort, despair and hope, life and death. Thanks for always being there."

The message was followed by another, from Brown's wife Sarah, adding: "#welovetheNHS -- more than words can say."

Professor Stephen Hawking, author of "A Brief History of Time", also spoke out in favor of the British system, telling the Guardian newspaper that he owes his life to NHS treatment for the neuro-muscular dystrophy he has suffered from for 40 years.

"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS," he said. "I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."

Despite the support, the 51-year-old NHS is regularly the target of criticism at home, with opposition politicians accusing Brown's government of mismanagement resulting in long waiting lists and a "lottery" in deciding who gets life-saving drugs and surgery.

Nevertheless, opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron also added his voice to the defense campaign with a posting on his party's Web site.

" Millions of people are grateful for the care they have received from the NHS -- including my own family.

"One of the wonderful things about living in this country is that the moment you're injured or fall ill -- no matter who you are, where you are from, or how much money you've got -- you know that the NHS will look after you."

His statement followed comments from one of his own party members backing the Republican criticism of the NHS. Dan Hannan, a Conservative member of the European Parliament reportedly said in an interview that "he wouldn't wish it on anyone."

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(CNN) -- From the world's biggest manufacturer of mobile phone batteries to a car company with global pretensions, BYD is a Chinese company that has roared onto the international stage energized by its workaholic founder Wang Chuanfu.

Building his own dreams: Wang Chuanfu has turned BYD into an international company in less than 15 years.

Wang's hands-on approach to running a business with 130,000 employees  -- he still eats in the company canteen and lives in a BYD-owned housing complex -- isn't too far removed from how he built the company from scratch in 1995 when he was 29 years old.

Wang trained as an engineer and studied the patents of other companies' mobile phone batteries, even taking them apart to see how they were made. He raised some start-up capital from a relative to create his own mobile phone battery-making business in Shenzhen, the special economic zone just north of Hong Kong.

BYD's business approach differed from the likes of Sony and Sanyo by substituting an automated system for one of China's biggest resources, physical labor.

Employing thousands of people was cheaper than installing expensive robotic assembly lines, and by 2000 BYD had become the biggest mobile phone battery maker in the world.

Wang bought a failing Chinese car company in 2003 to enter the automobile market, and BYD now has a number of models available in China, including a plug-hybrid car cheaper than the market-leading Toyota Prius.

The success of BYD has attracted plenty of attention from industry analysts and investors from the West, including Warren Buffet. The billionaire American has invested $250 million in BYD, making even more people in the West sit up and take note of the company.

Wang isn't content to just compete in the hybrid and electric car market in China; he aims to keep BYD's meteoric rise going and make it the world's biggest car maker by 2025.

"It is a big ambition. In January and February 2009 China was the world's biggest automobile consuming market for those months. So based on this, China can sell more than 10 million automobiles this year. So maybe China can exceed the USA and become the biggest market in the world," Wang told CNN.

BYD stands for "Build Your Dreams" and Wang is trying to fulfill the aspiration among many in China of creating a national champion; a brand with international respect and reputation of quality.

Wang believes the electric car can be that product, and BYD the company to do it.

"For new energy vehicles...China is on the same level or even leading other countries. In the field of new energy cars, China hopes that Chinese companies can catch up with the rest of the world and catch up with the pace," said Wang.

But the term "Made in China" still has a stigma attached to it. The scandals of tainted milk and toys that had to be recalled rocked China in 2008 and diminished the reputation of Chinese products abroad.

"This kind of 'Made in China' is different from other types of 'Made in China.' Our products have never been recalled, unlike many of our competitors. Judging from that, products made in China are sometimes better that those made elsewhere. As long as there are high-standards, Chinese manufacturing companies can definitely meet those standards," said Wang.

China also has acute environmental problems. It is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and Wang is aware that being an entrepreneur also means having an eye on the environmental impact of his business.

"As an entrepreneur, I think I have to consider both aspects. One part is the creation of a new business mode, or the revelation of new business competition. The other is that it's for social responsibility, making our Earth bluer.

"Urban pollution, reliance on petroleum and emission of carbon dioxide are three problems that entrepreneurs have to consider for basic social responsibility," said Wang.

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text: West

text: including

text: Warren

text: Buffet

text: The

text: billionaire

text: American

text: has

text: invested

text: million

text: in

text: BYD

text: making

text: even

text: more

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: West

text: sit

text: up

text: and

text: take

text: note

text: of

text: the

text: company

text: Wang

text: is

text: n't

text: content

text: to

text: just

text: compete

text: in

text: the

text: hybrid

text: and

text: electric

text: car

text: market

text: in

text: China

text: he

text: aims

text: to

text: keep

text: BYD

text: 's

text: meteoric

text: rise

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text: and

text: make

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text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: biggest

text: car

text: maker

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text: It

text: is

text: a

text: big

text: ambition

text: In

text: January

text: and

text: February

text: China

text: was

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: biggest

text: automobile

text: consuming

text: market

text: for

text: those

text: months

text: So

text: based

text: on

text: this

text: China

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text: sell

text: more

text: than

text: million

text: automobiles

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text: year

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text: can

text: exceed

text: the

text: USA

text: and

text: become

text: the

text: biggest

text: market

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: Wang

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text: BYD

text: stands

text: for

text: Build

text: Your

text: Dreams

text: and

text: Wang

text: is

text: trying

text: to

text: fulfill

text: the

text: aspiration

text: among

text: many

text: in

text: China

text: of

text: creating

text: a

text: national

text: champion

text: a

text: brand

text: with

text: international

text: respect

text: and

text: reputation

text: of

text: quality

text: Wang

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text: the

text: electric

text: car

text: can

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text: that

text: product

text: and

text: BYD

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text: company

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text: do

text: it

text: For

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text: energy

text: vehicles

text: China

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text: same

text: level

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text: even

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text: other

text: countries

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text: field

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text: new

text: energy

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text: China

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text: up

text: with

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: and

text: catch

text: up

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text: pace

text: said

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text: But

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text: term

text: Made

text: in

text: China

text: still

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text: a

text: stigma

text: attached

text: to

text: it

text: The

text: scandals

text: of

text: tainted

text: milk

text: and

text: toys

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text: had

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text: recalled

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text: diminished

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text: reputation

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text: Chinese

text: products

text: abroad

text: This

text: kind

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text: Made

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text: China

text: is

text: different

text: from

text: other

text: types

text: of

text: Made

text: in

text: China

text: Our

text: products

text: have

text: never

text: been

text: recalled

text: unlike

text: many

text: of

text: our

text: competitors

text: Judging

text: from

text: that

text: products

text: made

text: in

text: China

text: are

text: sometimes

text: better

text: that

text: those

text: made

text: elsewhere

text: As

text: long

text: as

text: there

text: are

text: high

text: standards

text: Chinese

text: manufacturing

text: companies

text: can

text: definitely

text: meet

text: those

text: standards

text: said

text: Wang

text: China

text: also

text: has

text: acute

text: environmental

text: problems

text: It

text: is

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: biggest

text: emitter

text: of

text: greenhouse

text: gases

text: and

text: Wang

text: is

text: aware

text: that

text: being

text: an

text: entrepreneur

text: also

text: means

text: having

text: an

text: eye

text: on

text: the

text: environmental

text: impact

text: of

text: his

text: business

text: As

text: an

text: entrepreneur

text: I

text: think

text: I

text: have

text: to

text: consider

text: both

text: aspects

text: One

text: part

text: is

text: the

text: creation

text: of

text: a

text: new

text: business

text: mode

text: or

text: the

text: revelation

text: of

text: new

text: business

text: competition

text: The

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text: is

text: that

text: it

text: 's

text: for

text: social

text: responsibility

text: making

text: our

text: Earth

text: bluer

text: Urban

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text: on

text: petroleum

text: and

text: emission

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text: carbon

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text: are

text: three

text: problems

text: that

text: entrepreneurs

text: have

text: to

text: consider

text: for

text: basic

text: social

text: responsibility

text: said

text: Wang

question: What are company BYD's claims?

answer: Our products have never been recalled,

text: Our products have never been recalled,

question: Who was the founder?

answer: Wang Chuanfu.

text: Wang Chuanfu.

question: When did Wang Chuanfu start the company?

answer: in 1995

text: in 1995

question: How much was invested?

answer: $250 million

text: $250 million

question: How much money has Warren Buffet invested in the company?

answer: $250 million in BYD,

text: $250 million in BYD,


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(CNN) -- For Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, a doctor, and 2nd Lt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, a dentist, this is a hill worth fighting for.

Tejdeep Singh Rattan, left, and Kamaljit Singh Kalsi are set to report for duty in the U.S. Army in July.

These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith are challenging an Army order that they remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards when they report for active duty in July.

In Sikhism, which originated in northwestern India, the turban and unshorn hair are articles of faith and can't be removed.

But the U.S. military says there are times when the military cannot accommodate certain religious practices, "such as when those religious observations would interfere with the wear of proper military headgear or protective clothing or equipment."

"It doesn't make sense to me, especially in these hard times," Kalsi told CNN. "The military is hurting for professionals. They need doctors, they need nurses."

Aided by the Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights group, and a law firm, the men have filed requests that their religious needs be accommodated. They have filed appeals with their immediate superiors and complaints with the inspectors general of the Army and the Pentagon.

The Sikh Coalition said Kalsi and Rattan had been assured that when they were recruited to join the Army's Health Professions Scholarship that their unshorn hair and turbans "would not be a problem."

"Both men were both recruited and commissioned -- with their Sikh articles of faith -- during their respective first years of medical and dental school (2001 and 2006) through the Army's Health Professions Scholarship Program.

"Both are concluding their training and are slated to begin active duty in July 2009. However, the U.S. Army is now disputing their ability to serve with their Sikh identity intact," the Sikh Coalition said in an April 14 letter addressed to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Amardeep Singh, the head of the Sikh Coalition, told CNN that the issue at hand involves observant Sikhs, not those Sikh-Americans who entered the military after removing their turbans and shaving their beards and hair.

The issue is all-important for the roughly 500,000-strong American Sikh community, which faced hostility after the September 11, 2001, attacks, when people associated them with al Qaeda terrorists because their turbans and beards resembled the militants' appearance.

"The perception is still there," said Singh. "We're sort of still feeling it."

He said surveys -- including one done recently in Queens, New York, where children reported being on the receiving end of verbal and physical abuse -- chronicle the problems Sikhs face.

"These kids are being harassed in New York. It's Queens, the most diverse county in the United States. If this is happening in Queens, it's happening in other parts of the country."

So, he said, the opportunity to serve in the U.S. Army sends the opposite message -- "that we are part and parcel of the fabric of this country."

Kalsi, Singh and the Sikh community stress the Sikhs' military heritage. Kalsi, for example, is the fourth generation in his family to serve in the military, and his ancestors served in India's military. The Sikh served in allied forces in the two world wars and they serve in the militaries of Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Pakistan, as well as India.

The coalition notes in its letter to Gates that a Sikh doctor and dentist were serving in the Army, "grandfathered in under the old policy" that ended in the 1980s when observant Sikhs were barred from admission to the armed forces.

Lt. Col. Christopher C. Garver, an Army spokesman, told CNN in an e-mail that "the Army places high value on the rights of Soldiers to freely observe the tenets of their respective religions."

"Accommodation of a Soldier's religious practices must be examined against military necessity and cannot be guaranteed at all times," he wrote. "There are times when the Army cannot accommodate for religious reasons, such as when those religious observations would interfere with the wear of proper military headgear or protective clothing or equipment.

"The Army regulations which establish the standards of wear and appearance of the uniform and accommodating religious practices are in accordance with the Department of Defense Instruction on this subject," he said.

But the Sikhs want the Army to rethink and reconsider their situation.

"If they can come up with another policy that would allow Sikhs to serve, I guarantee you, they will have many, many people join from the Sikh community," Kalsi said.

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question: When does a problem arise, according to the Army?

answer: the military cannot accommodate certain religious practices,

text: the military cannot accommodate certain religious practices,

question: What does the Army say?

answer: there are times when the military cannot accommodate certain religious practices,

text: there are times when the military cannot accommodate certain religious practices,

question: What does the problem arise from?

answer: the September 11, 2001, attacks,

text: the September 11, 2001, attacks,

question: Who set to report for duty in U.S. Army in July?

answer: Tejdeep Singh Rattan,

text: Tejdeep Singh Rattan,

question: What does the Army say Sikhs must do?

answer: remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards when they report for active duty

text: remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards when they report for active duty

question: What does the Army say about turbans?

answer: "would not be a problem."

text: "would not be a problem."

question: What does the Sikh group say?

answer: "Both are concluding their training and are slated to begin active duty in July 2009. However, the U.S. Army is now disputing their ability to serve with their

text: "Both are concluding their training and are slated to begin active duty in July 2009. However, the U.S. Army is now disputing their ability to serve with their

question: Who must remove their turbans, cut their hair and beards?

answer: Kamaljit Singh Kalsi

text: Kamaljit Singh Kalsi