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...cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese and the rest of Asia as well have posited a Taiwan that is so much more than a cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now, in its eyes at least, the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course, the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap operas are they watching in Bangkok? And whose Mando-pop CDs are they buying in Kuala...
...Taiwanese Everyman--successful, middle class, proud of his detached home and little garden. His wire-frame glasses, oxford-cloth shirt and chinos give him the look of a millennial cyberpeasant. If he weren't President, his sartorial choices seem to say, he might have risen to run a chip-fabrication plant or dream up a B2B application...
...Maybe showing that this simpler system does work might help chip away at those silly "security" questions the gate agents ask before you board (When's the last time a terrorist admitted to not packing his own bag?) This week Levy took a step closer to his dream. He is the co-founder of FairAir, a new service that provides the country's first fully- transferable airline ticket. That's right: you can now buy a ticket on FairAir.com on one of the four participating airlines (Northwest, America West, National and Midway) and you can do what you wish with...
...have a dream for American power, too. They say that there's enough wind in the Dakotas alone to power the whole country - that we could be the Saudi Arabia of wind - and I know there's enough sun in Arizona to chip in a little more, when solar-power technology is ready...
...season with not one but two hot gifts to grab, each in short supply. Each company hopes to release at least 1.5 million units by year-end--a million more than the number of PlayStation 2s that were available last Christmas, assuming the two can avoid the kind of chip shortage that bedeviled Sony. From the retailer's point of view, "it's like having a ticket on every horse in the race," says Joe Firestone, CEO of Electronics Boutique. Looks as if we have a winner already...