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...knew it was going to be a really tough match,” Li said after felling the former Bear. “I’ve heard a bunch about [Drake] from the guys on the team. He beat [Chu] last year in the dual-matches, and I knew I was going to have my hands full today...
...think Einstein would have loved string theory. The thing to bear in mind is Einstein himself recognized the limitations of his own General Theory of Relativity. That’s why he was looking for something to go beyond it,” Greene says. “I think string theory, in many ways, does exactly what he was hoping. It puts together his own theory, general relativity, with this other framework that is undeniably correct: quantum mechanics...
Until we witness cultural changes that encourage more moderation, we will continue to be the improvident consumers we are today. But if we wish to keep the bear from going the way of the average American—ballooning to obesity and cutting down on life expectancy—then we must at least encourage more recycling and less wastefulness. The future is in our pudgy and prodigal hands...
...firms trying to compete with China receive little sympathy from their larger cousins. One justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job in December to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66? an hour (instead of the 34? they had been receiving). Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending...
...understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly initial public offerings (IPOs), are the hottest investment of the moment. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland Chinese firms are called, spiked 152% in 2003. After three years of indifference to stocks during a bad bear market, many ordinary Hong Kongers are now giddy over just about any new offering with the word China attached to it, hoping to cash in by flipping shares within hours or days of buying them. The enthusiasm isn't just local: a lot of the interest is coming from Europe...