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Those sorts of handouts buy the state grudging acquiescence even from low-income workers like Joodi. When he married in 2001, the loan was $700; today it's approaching $1,300. Joodi is far from content. He tells me, "I work from 6 a.m. to midnight, come home exhausted and see my family for half an hour before I pass out." But the loan clearly mattered in his life, allowing him to marry at once, which could mean the difference between his continuing to tolerate the Islamic system and revolting against...
...19th century made copyright and patent theft commercially important, so the Internet and associated information technologies redefined the market for inventions. Communications networks allow a tech employee of a Zhuhai company to search patent registrations internationally and look for legal vulnerabilities. IT also made the promulgation of digital content instantaneous and cost-free. Movies can be secretly recorded in a theater in New York, uploaded to the Internet minutes later, and downloaded in China and pressed onto CDs within hours. Technology and globalization have created the most prodigious copying machine the world has ever seen...
...rent portable toilets from the Continent. Live 8 downplayed the call to march, but by then faced fresh criticism - that although Paul McCartney, U2, Madonna and other rock royalty are signed up, few black performers and only one African will appear. At the press conference, one participant pronounced himself content, however. Elton John says that at the original gig in 1985, "I was pretty much a self-obsessed drug addict." At least that's one monster slain...
...recent content analysis of tobacco-industry documents suggests that cigarette companies intentionally targeted female smokers through cigarette design—creating both aesthetic feminine appeal and illusions of reduced health risks...
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