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...This isn't baloney, but it is hardly the whole story - as you would discover if, instead of being mesmerized by the sight of Pudong, you were to turn around and look at the solid, early 20th century buildings of the Bund, just behind you. Modernity did not come to China because Deng Xiaoping said it should. As Rana Mitter of Oxford University argues, there had been modernizing streams in Chinese society long before 1978, and had some of them taken a different course, our view of what China represents for the future would be unrecognizable from the standard text...
...similar to ones they've bought. Netflix offers "Movies Most Like ...," but the similarities can be baffling. Rent the Indian drama Fiza and you'll be pointed to Season 1 of Scrubs and the Bakker biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye. This is when I yearn for the guys behind the old Kim's counter. Not that every video-store clerk is a budding Quentin Tarantino, eager to point renters toward some arcane masterpiece from Italy or Hong Kong, but you do miss out on a face-to-face with a knowledgeable cinephile...
...Virginia Keep Your Thumbs on the Wheel Text-messaging continues to grow in popularity, but a new study offers a sobering reminder that it should never spread to the driver's seat. Truckers texting behind the wheel were 23 times as likely to get into an accident or near miss as those focused on the road, according to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, which collected data from 6 million miles of driving. The group warned of a "crash epidemic" if the problem is not curbed. Dialing a phone was also hazardous, though talking did not raise accident rates...
...there are fewer than 50 vehicles in the parking lot outside - mostly passenger cars, with a handful of small commercial vehicles, SUVs and some motorbikes. A blue-turbaned, elderly Sikh with a flowing white beard kick-starts his scooter while balancing a small knapsack of shopping on the seat behind him. (Read about Walmart's big plans for getting even bigger...
...personally contacted the office of thwarted presidential candidate and now leading opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi in the run-up to the election. He also admitted that a local staffer wore green, the color of Mousavi's campaign, to one of the demonstrations. (See pictures of Mir-Hossein Mousavi behind the scenes...