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...consumer high-tech industry, it's all about the reveal. Technologies become outdated so quickly that electronics companies need massive momentum for sales during products' first few months on the shelves - and for that reason, if the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas didn't already exist, someone would be sure to invent it. The biggest event of the year for gadget geeks, it's where early adopters go (or what they read about) to plan their wish lists for the upcoming year...
...video, I wish--actually, I don't wish anything. It all came together like it was supposed to, like it was already destined to exist. One person found out, told another person, and it all happened in four days. It was just a beautiful time. People were just pouring into the studio...
...give their animals mountains of antibiotics to spur rapid growth, such that the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of America’s antibiotics are now used on animals, not humans (the USDA doesn’t even bother recording their use, so no exact figures exist...
...another orgy of automobile arson on Wednesday demonstrated, the torching of cars in France has not only become an everyday event; it's also now a regular form of expression for disenfranchised suburban youths wanting to make sure the rest of the country doesn't forget they exist. And their fiery presence is never felt so strongly as it is each New Year's Eve - the day of France's unofficial festival of car-burning. (Read a special report on the 2005 French riots...
...impulse is understandable. Beginning in the mid-1980s, a wave of people-power revolutions transformed the continent, from the Philippines and South Korea to Thailand and Taiwan. But such mass protests were designed to overthrow dictators, not democratically elected leaders. In much of Asia, political frameworks now exist to remove incompetent rulers at the ballot box, making street rallies to throw the bums out largely unnecessary. Of course, no electoral system is perfect: vote-buying in villages, for instance, plagues some Asian countries. But it is only by going through several electoral cycles that democracies can consolidate and grow...