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...Whether such efforts can truly work may determine the fate of Taiwan's economy. "The old model is a top-down approach," says ITRI president Johnsee Lee. "The innovation economy has to be more bottom-up. It needs more talent." Morris Chang says Taiwan lacks that talent, because the country's education system stresses rote learning, resulting in "very little independent thinking and very little creativity." Chang also points out that Taiwan has to contend with a greatly changed international environment. "China wasn't in the picture 30 years ago, neither was India," Chang says. "You have a big competitor...
Chone Figgins is fun to watch on the base paths—he stole second and third in the bottom of the eighth to set himself up to score the Angels’ tenth run of the game, earning all fans ten free wings at Claim Jumpers...
...pardon Libby. He characterized Cheney as a friend and a good Vice President but said his pardon request had little internal support. If the presidential staff were polled, the result would be 100 to 1 against a pardon, Bush joked. Then he turned to Sharp. "What's the bottom line here? Did this...
...reports paint a portrait of a country stuck at the bottom of the class just 2½ years after it joined the E.U. Bulgaria's lack of progress is all the more glaring given the initial assumptions, in both Brussels and Sofia, that E.U. accession would lock in the reform process, pulling Bulgaria into the European mainstream. But the country is still plagued by corruption, gangland violence and feeble law enforcement. The system's failings were all too visible earlier this month, when two men indicted for running a criminal mob involved in racketeering and extortion were freed on bail...
...Sitting at the bottom of the NL West with a 37-55 record—an insurmountable 21 games out of first place—it’s definitely hard to be a Padres fan. But as a wizened student of baseball, I also appreciate investment. And I think the Padres have that...