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...effort, in which she also played the leading role, was followed last year by A Letter from an Unknown Woman, which takes an Austrian novel, places it in war-torn China and contemplates the universality of unrequited love. "My generation is more focused on internal feelings," she says. "The bigger issues like politics are for the older generation...
Shanda first courted success with a concept that's bigger in Asia than in the U.S.: online games, a $370 million industry in China in which players interact with each other via the Internet in a virtual world of dragons, maidens and sword fights. Chen has bought majority stakes in Sina, the country's largest portal, and a host of other online gaming companies. Next up, Shanda, in collaboration with Intel, hopes to introduce a set-top box that will enable users to access everything from news, music and movies to games and online auction sites. Currently, only 20 million...
...medical privacy as technology evolves. But, he adds, it's important to keep the relative risks in perspective. Should you get into a car wreck, he says, "if you're an absolute privacy addict you can always say, 'I'd rather die.'" Identity, in fact, could be a far bigger issue than security, given the vast number of Americans with common names such as Smith, Sanchez...
...over the past five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho last year acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror: "Hyundai has quality and prices that have caught customers' attention, not to mention ours...
Until recently, Beijing saw those affected by dams as little more than obstacles to a bigger goal--powering the world's most eye-popping economy. Beijing's planners want hydropower to help ease their reliance on imported oil. Especially enticing is a swath of Yunnan province where three of Asia's great rivers--the Salween, Mekong and Yangtze--descend through valleys that account for nearly a quarter of China's hydropower potential. Developers have proposed 27 dams on those three rivers...