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...real reason to believe they could be hit next? The Administration's duct-tape alert had the perhaps counterproductive effect of suggesting that every household should consider itself a target--even while prime targets went undefended. "These threats are real," says Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., "but the increased probability of a terrorist attack does not increase the risks to any single individual." At the same time, even strengthening our defenses won't deter terrorists forever. The truth is, we probably have no way of knowing whether the country is prepared for the next attack until...
...fuel-efficiency law was passed, Congress had no intention of exempting a huge class of passenger vehicles from regulation; SUVs didn't really exist back then. There were only the precursors--the Jeep, the Chevy Suburban--and they were considered work vehicles and novelties. In the 1970s American Motors Corp. sought to have Jeeps classified as light trucks to avoid cars' emission stan* Adards, which would have required design changes. AMC rightly pointed out that the Jeep was built on a truck chassis...
...rise. The judge enters--she's 25, loquacious and the cutest jurist her show's producers could find. This Chinese Judge Judy is deciding if a Beijing man can keep a donkey in his apartment. This is what News Corp.--which entertains America with dwarfs pulling jumbo jets--is bringing to the Middle Kingdom. The company is reformatting hit shows from abroad and adding "rock-'n'-roll energy" to Chinese TV, says Jamie Davis, head of News Corp. in China. There's Wanted! In China to help catch murderers and Late Night Talk with a Letterman knock-off reading...
...China's 340 million television households have never watched anything quite like this. The show, called TV Court, is a knockoff of America's popular reality courtroom series Judge Judy?and it's brought to you by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It's all part of the media titan's grand plan to captivate the world's biggest audience. News Corp. thinks it knows what must-see TV means to the Chinese people, and it's not the bland melodramas, giddy variety shows and propaganda classics broadcast on some 50 cable channels run mostly by the country's central...
...revenue of less than $30 million provide more than eight out of every 10 jobs in urban China and account for three-quarters of the country's total industrial output. "Small businesses are simply the most important component of China's economy," says Eric Siew of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the commercial lending arm of the World Bank. The IFC also runs training programs for Chinese bankers...