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Apple stock immediately surged 10% on the earnings numbers, which beat Wall Street estimates. The stock jump suggests that investors are now focusing on more than just the health of CEO Steve Jobs despite the fact that the SEC is reportedly investigating the company's disclosures on Jobs' condition. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
...tracks, or sound collages, on Retrochine blend movie music with lashings of trip-hop, electronica and funk. Some use movie samples as their starting point: "Riding at the Speed of Sound" jazzes up the pathos-imbued vocals of 1960s starlet Carrie Ku Mei with rock riffs and a break-beat exuberance worthy of Basement Jaxx. Others are simply inspired by the movies, like the cheeky "(21st Century) Char Siu Bao," which features present-day siren Gloria Tang singing in Mandarin to the tune of "Mambo Italiano...
...done it before. America won World War II and the Cold War not by taking on all the enemies of freedom at once but by shrewdly isolating our greatest enemies, even though that meant cutting deals with some pretty nasty guys. We beat Hitler by allying with Stalin, and we beat Moscow in part by allying with Beijing. Today we need to beat al-Qaeda with the help of Iran, elements of the Taliban, perhaps Syria and maybe one day even Hizballah and Hamas. We need to isolate the violent jihadists who want to attack America rather than isolate ourselves...
...Dhabi is classified, despite a GDP per capita of $63,000 - want to enjoy the energy-intensive lifestyles of the developed world, and they don't want fears over climate change to stop them. The best hope is that the innovation personified by Masdar and the WFES can beat the pace of warming. Masdar may seem like a mirage, but "this is absolutely real," says Nicholas Stern, a British economist and climate-change expert. "I'm very optimistic that this is happening...
...suspect this is Koh Sai Daeng, or Red Sand Island - alongside Rohingya detainees captured from other refugee expeditions. They were 412 in total. For eight days, Muzaffar said, they were kept in the open and given little more than "two mouthfuls of rice" per meal. Thai soldiers, he said, "beat us up whenever they felt like...