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...Mass-production of goods is Barbieri-Low's dominant leitmotif. Long before China was factory to the world, he suggests, it was factory to itself. The artisans were indispensable cogs in the Qin and Han imperial machinery. Barbieri-Low splendidly reanimates their lost lives, and gives them due credit for greasing the wheels of China's first empires. It's the same sort of credit due to those shunned migrant workers now constructing Olympic stadiums in Beijing, anonymously propping up the superpower of tomorrow...
...effective election. True, there were irregularities, and just how free and fair the election really was will be the subject of ongoing debate. But these polls satisfied the litmus test of democracy: their results are being accepted as legitimate by the Pakistani people. For that, President Pervez Musharraf deserves credit. He has made some terrible decisions in recent years (from undermining the judiciary to shackling the media) but resisting the temptation to rig this election can only be characterized as laudable. Given Musharraf's unpopularity, it came as no surprise that his party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), won only...
...credit two scrupulous professors for making the case that skittish politicians won't. In their new book, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Princeton's Robert George and the University of South Carolina's Christopher Tollefsen argue for treating the embryo as inviolable. Their defense, less theological than biological, is that the embryo is a whole, living member of the human species in its earliest stage of development, not just a potential one or a part of one--and if destroyed, that particular individual has perished. From that conviction arise their rules for both research and reproduction: Don't create...
Backed by a pristine credit rating and mountains of cash, bond insurers promise to repay principal and interest if an issuer cannot. By paying for a bond insurer's guarantee, cities and states can borrow more cheaply to build schools, bridges and roads. Here's how the bond insurers' troubles are spreading to Main Street...
...MORTGAGE BUST As more homeowners default, insurers face a rash of claims, spoiling their once sterling credit ratings...