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...While local businesses gear up for the fight, Vietnam's government will have to move fast to bring its legal system and infrastructure up to speed if the country hopes to attract more multinationals. Running a factory in Vietnam can be a frustrating proposition. Electricity production is barely meeting demand, which is growing at 15% per year. Roads and ports are increasingly congested. Nike Vietnam's general manager Amanda Tucker says the company's containers sometimes sit on the dock for 24 hours before shipping out. Because Vietnam has no deep-water port to handle the new larger "super-container...
...potential consequences are fearsome. As The New York Times reported, the Patriot Act, renewed by Congress in March, empowers the FBI to demand individuals’ private information from doctors’ offices, banks, and libraries without a judge’s consent, using “national security letters,” which carry with them a “gag rule,” that prevents recipients from discussing the letters with anyone but their lawyers. (Those investigated can challenge this gag rule.) For researchers using services like RefWorks, the potential hazard is that their academic work could...
...surveyed than do their Canadian colleagues. For one thing, academics in this country have nowhere to hide—even if Harvard were to move all of its users’ personal information from sites like RefWorks to servers in Canada, the Patriot Act still enables the FBI to demand that librarians and Internet service providers surrender user records...
...Estimated increase in global demand for energy--mostly fossil fuels--by 2030. Developing nations, primarily China and India, are responsible for 70% of that growth...
...Estimated increase in global demand for energy-mostly fossil fuels-by 2030. Developing nations, primarily China and India, are responsible for 70% of that growth 2010 Year China is projected to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide...