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...predicament. It has a huge pool of scientists and engineers, and the per capita number of patents issued there is nearly three-quarters that of the U.S. Yet Russia's global share of the high-tech market is around 0.3%; America's is 130 times higher. Russia has to fix lots of things for that imbalance to change. Among them: its weak enforcement of intellectual property laws, onerous business registration procedures and strict controls on the export of hard currency. Also, Russian entrepreneurs lack the business basics...
...when political parties figured out a way to exploit loopholes in the last reform that Congress passed, opening the way for donors to give hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time under the guise of "party building." Even McCain acknowledges his bill would be at best a temporary fix, one that would work only until politicians and interest groups figure a way around...
...airs commercial-free alternative rock that's edgier than most of what's heard in the U.S. (On Wednesdays, I can catch the all-Aussie Oz Music Show, airing from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Australian Eastern standard time.) For sheer novelty, I travel to Germany for an oldies fix: Berlin's Radio Paradiso still plays David Soul and Captain & Tennille...
...Europe" for not getting a hold on the virus before it spread abroad. And a farmer in the afflicted French town of Mayenne told a British reporter to go back to "your whore of a country." The predominant mood, however, is not petulance but perplexity about how to fix a system that ships livestock in big herds over long distances for sale and slaughter, crossing borders and oceans like any other global commodity, thus giving lethal bugs a chance to spread...
...mail," says Francis Burkle-Young, author of Passing the Keys and a veteran church observer. "You don't see anything in public. It's really a matter of conversations to feel out blocs. A couple of people let me see corners of it." Burkle-Young believes that the fix is in and that an Italian will return to the papacy when the ballots are counted...