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Mr. Wen said government would aim for a growth rate of 7 percent this year, considerably slower than the 9.1 percent pace recorded for 2003. He said the government would reduce the issuance of state bonds intended to finance construction by about $3.6 billion, or 25 percent, and would also restrain lending and investment that has led to "redundant construction in some industries and regions."

November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison’s eagerly anticipated eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize, precedented in literature by only two black men: Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Dereck Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel laureate for literature since 1962, the year novelist John Steinbeck received the award.