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Patti Seery, a longtime American resident of Indonesia, always wanted the world to share her love of the archipelago. There was just one snag: hopping between Indonesia's 17,500 or so islands usually involved taking rickety local boats or squeezing onto impossibly crowded ferries. So she came up with Silolona, www.silolona.com-a two-masted ship of ironwood that she commissioned from the Konjo craftsmen of Sulawesi. Taking two years to build, the vessel is a replica of a phinisi, the type of sturdy cargo boat that plied Southeast Asian trade routes for centuries...
...Communications blackouts aren't uncommon-in 2005, for example, Pakistan was cut off from the Internet for 12 days after a fishing boat accidentally snagged its main international connection; sharks have even been blamed for biting into lightly armored lines. But outages on the scale of this Asia-wide meltdown aren't supposed to happen. And with the march of globalization, companies are more dependent than ever on global networks, which makes the threat of communications paralysis particularly unsettling. So what can be done to prevent future blackouts...
Patti Seery, a longtime American resident of Indonesia, always wanted the world to share her love of the archipelago. There was just one snag: hopping between Indonesia's 17,500 or so islands usually involved taking rickety local boats or squeezing onto impossibly crowded ferries. So she came up[an error occurred while processing this directive] with Silolona, www.silolona.com - a two-masted ship of ironwood that she commissioned from the Konjo craftsmen of Sulawesi. Taking two years to build, the vessel is a replica of a phinisi, the type of sturdy cargo boat that plied Southeast Asian trade routes...
...alcoholic," said Miss U., "I think that would be pushing the envelope." Is that how we use that expression these days? And she wept in gratitude, as the corporate envelope closed around her. After a suitable therapeutic interval she'll be fit to show up at all the boat shows and smile, but if she kicks up her heels she'll be proving she's in denial, as witches used to prove themselves witches by insisting they weren...
...Will the Boat Sink the Water? Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao The title of this searing account of corruption in China's countryside comes from a saying of Emperor Taizong's: "Water holds up the boat; water may also sink the boat." It is often quoted by Chinese officials to describe the nervous symbiosis between China's government and its peasantry. But as Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao make clear, the economic reforms that have buoyed China's urban centers have done little for its 900 million peasants. Banned shortly after its publication in 2004, this muckraking samizdat has sold...