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...still like a Bud." JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, who once worked at an Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, on his fondness for the U.S. despite recent strains in French-American relations over the war in Iraq...
Budweiser may seem like the all-american beer, but its name comes from a Czech town whose local brewery won court battles last week in Lithuania and Japan over Anheuser-Busch's efforts to keep the Bud name exclusive. Similar trademark concerns will arise at trade talks next month, and if some countries get their way, dozens of generic food names will be restricted to their regions of origin...
...like no blossoms you've ever seen. Fashioned of metal and silicone and embedded with electronic sensors, they are actually robots that react to light and body heat by bobbing, swaying, spinning and changing color. Put your hand in front of one, and its petals contract into a bud and turn bright green or red. Stand near another, and notice how the soft, ambient music in the background changes pitch. Now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, through January 2004, Cyberflora Installation was created by Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences...
...Authoritarian regimes don't win many popularity contests, but their one selling point is an ability to control their citizens. Singapore ruthlessly nipped its SARS problem in the bud with draconian quarantine measures?one of the few times the island nation's authoritarian reflexes were cheered by the international community, which rewarded Singapore by keeping it off the World Health Organization's (WHO) travel advisory list. But instead of using its vast autocratic apparatus early on, Beijing's leaders lost key weeks in curbing the disease by pretending there was no problem. Now, China's central government is playing...
...regard as their Jerusalem - for themselves. The Turks would fear that revenues from the oil fields would allow the Kurds to create a viable independent state, thus destabilizing its own large Kurdish minority. So Turkey would send in tens of thousands of troops to nip that possibility in the bud. And America would have a civil war in the north while it was still trying to pacify Baghdad...