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...that inspiring. Didn’t we invent robots to do more interesting things than move glacially and hold red fans? Damn Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics; shouldn’t robots be threatening our lives by now? Robots really blew their chances—America was so afraid of them like 10 years ago, but they’re pretty robo-passé.Then, a hologram of Beck appears above them, and all is made well, somehow. He flashes in and out of existence, looking like the communications systems from “Star Wars...
...authorities seemed to have learned a lesson. When a smaller petrochemical factory in Chongqing blew up last week, resulting in another benzene leak (and forcing the evacuation of 6,000 residents), the government announced the news almost immediately. On Saturday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao made a surprise visit to Harbin to thank paramilitary troops distributing water-filtration kits in the city. "We must not allow the masses to be short of water," he said...
...Crimson blew open a tightly contested game down the stretch and won going away. Leading by 51-49 with four minutes to play, Harvard went on an 11-1 run to take a commanding 62-50 lead with 1:19 remaining...
...club of hapless traders who have squandered fortunes in global commodities markets?think Nick Leeson, who bankrupted 232-year-old Barings Bank in 1995, or the Sumitomo Metals trader who blew $1.8 billion in 1996?add a new member: Liu Qibing of Beijing's State Reserve Bureau (SRB), whose wrong-way bet on copper prices may cost the Chinese government tens of millions of dollars...
...nearly $100 per rain- and mud-soaked attendee. Nor was Havana on the Harbor much fun; $2,500 was spent on 40 students—many of whom later wanted their money back. The Snoop Dogg fiasco wasted more than $7,000 and the poorly-attended Jim Breuer show blew through about twice that. Then, of course, there’s Wyclef Jean, who didn’t play to the tune of about $30,000.The purpose of this column, however, is not to simply list these wasteful expenditures as so many have done before. Hallow calls for greater accountability...