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...problem with the hard line is that it tends to beget the hard line. Hawkish elements in the Chinese leadership may be content to drag out the standoff over a downed U.S. spy plane in the hope of backing the U.S. away from selling sophisticated weapons to Taiwan - and, perhaps, to score domestic political points against their more reformist rivals in Beijing's arcane leadership struggle. But if anything, by openly challenging President Bush's prestige in its handling of the incident, Beijing may have ultimately reinforced the hawkish trend in Washington...
...view was dramatically different just a few quarters back. First, China had enough talented Netrepreneurs?many of them educated in the West?to launch a homegrown Internet revolution. The communist government, meanwhile, made it clear foreigners weren't welcome in the politically sensitive content business. While this gave locals an edge, they had to struggle to carve out a role for themselves. Net pioneers had to placate the censors while opening chat rooms on controversial topics?from sexual mores to a tragic schoolhouse explosion?that Chinese wanted to discuss. They also found ways to bypass China's byzantine regulatory system...
...contrast, if melting ice caps dilute the salt content of the sea, major ocean currents like the Gulf Stream could slow or even stop, and so would their warming effects on northern regions. More snowfall reflecting more sunlight back into space could actually cause a net cooling. Global warming could, paradoxically, throw the planet into another...
...Bush Administration's critics insist that objections to the form of the international agreement are just a smokescreen; the true problem is the content. "The real issue in the end isn't the Kyoto Protocol," says Bill Hare, Climate Policy Director for Greenpeace. "It's the reduction of greenhouse emissions, and that is what the Bush Administration appears allergic...
...Dara is the filmed version of a 1966 literary novel known intimately to almost all in Thailand, or at least most of the males. "Jan Dara was where sex education started for most of us," says 39-year-old hipster director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (6ixtynin9). While the dramatic content is key, the flesh quotient in the movie is generous. Nonzee estimates that 20% of screen time features some nudity, and that includes voyeurism, four rapes and, of course, the lesbian scene Nonzee has held for the final day of shooting. "In my first film," marvels Nonzee, tugging on a Marlboro...