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...idea of China as the gravitational center of a globalized world is something most countries have gotten used to. But classical music hadn't seemed like it would be part of that mix, if only because Western opera and the Eastern world never made a natural fit. To outsiders, the traditional Peking opera seemed as much circus as song, with extraneous acrobatics and melodies that struck European ears as atonal and arhythmic. Western opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that...
With the economy in the U.S. "contracting significantly" in the fourth quarter, as San Francisco Fed president Janet Yellen recently put it, an issue that was practically unthinkable three months ago is now, for the Fed, front and center: the possibility of the U.S. entering a phase of deflation, or protracted declines in the general price level. In its statement accompanying the most recent interest-rate cut, the Fed said, "In light of the declines in the prices of energy and other commodities and weaker prospects for economic activity, [the Fed] expects inflation to moderate...
...appeared on TV to be standing before anchor Wolf Blitzer in the CNN newsroom, waving - and surrounded by a fuzzy white line. In the studio, Blitzer was talking to empty space, although he could see Yellin on a nearby monitor. "We beamed you in here into the CNN election center," said Blitzer, who received 242 viewer e-mails about the stunt, 80% of which "expressed how 'cool' it was," according to a CNN spokeswoman. will.i.am, musician and creator of the Yes We Can viral video, also made a brief appearance in digitized form to be interviewed by Anderson Cooper...
...degree green background; the images were overlaid to make Yellin appear three-dimensional, and the reporter was then digitally pasted into the frame next to Blitzer. Specialized software was used to make sure her image lined up with the movement and angles of the cameras in CNN's election-center studio. The technology (and money) to create freestanding, three-dimensional, real-time holograms - in which Yellin would have looked to Blitzer as if she were standing right next to him - is still at least a decade away...
...also rejects the idea that bin Laden Jr. has cause to hope to win the support of his countrymen in Spain. Saudis do have considerable influence among Spain's Muslim community, since they have financed a number of mosques, including Madrid's huge Islamic Cultural Center, and also helped engineer, according to many observers, a recent, unexpected change in the leadership of Spain's Islamic Commission. But it hardly follows that they would support Omar, no matter how convincingly he distanced himself from his father. "Saudi Arabia wants to show the world it is doing everything it can to crack...