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...technology, training, source code, best practices and proprietary products to joint-venture partners they were forced into bed with. They have funded schools, orphanages, disaster reconstruction, overseas scholarships and all manner of poverty-alleviation programs. But now that the China market matters more to them, it appears that China couldn't care less. Increasingly difficult China-market access is the immediate worry. But many are looking ahead and losing sleep over expectations that their onetime partners are morphing into predators - and that their own technology and know-how will be coming back at them globally in the form...
That's where the trial - and the federal rules of evidence that govern it - comes in. "This case clearly presents a clash of worldviews," Spindelman says. "But the legal system can't just pick sides between them; it couldn't and still be a decision consistent with the rule of law. There must be reasons for whatever conclusion the trial court reaches and facts supporting them...
...Wonder-bread-like dough of its assembly-line rivals. As someone who grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., no pizza mecca, I still love the traditional "low-moisture" (i.e., greasy) mozzarella we all remember, the kind that forms an appetizingly orange compound as it merges with the sauce. I couldn't care less what toppings the city fathers of Naples think are canonical. But after eating good pizza - acidic sauce, unwaxy cheese, unwaffly dough - I just can't go back. (See pictures of what the world eats, Part...
...former Senator always lavished his wife with praise and compliments. (This alone, by the way, should have tipped people off.) It seemed plausible that he had made a mistake of weapons-grade stupidity and was prepared to make amends for it. Particularly since he'd torpedoed his career and couldn't possibly sink any lower in the public's eyes. All this, and yet the marriage couldn't be saved...
...Services Committee chairman Barney Frank points out that the Republican alternative to the bill consisted of ending TARP and otherwise maintaining the status quo; he's surprised the GOP hasn't paid a political price. "I'm disappointed with the zeitgeist," Frank says. "The Republicans are so extreme they couldn't help themselves; they actually proposed doing nothing. I would've thought refusing to fix a dysfunctional system would be unpopular." (See how Americans are spending...