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...deal with the usual petty racism; Taotao's Mandarin, to the dismay of his parents, quickly degenerates, as does his filial piety; the Wus are barraged by a snooty Chinese emigrant community that brays endlessly about our protagonists' lack of national pride, harassing them for large donations to Chinese flood victims; and the Dalai Lama makes a cameo, mouthing platitudes ("It's not difficult to rationalize injustice...
...might expect on Wall Street, money is the prime motivator. So long as cash continues to flood into environmental investment vehicles, new ones will keep being created. "There is a lot of demand for these eco-products," says Ronald van der Ham, assistant director of equity structuring for ABN Amro, and that is what's driving "the constant stream of new indices and new funds being launched." Lipper FERI, a mutual-fund information provider in London, estimates that Europe's environmental and ecological equity funds alone raised nearly $8 billion in the first three quarters of 2007, almost $4 billion...
...have been locked in a political deep freeze, seemingly unable to overcome the legacy of a devastating war more than six decades ago. Yet today, the two countries are both economic juggernauts - and their futures are inextricably linked. Upwards of 20,000 Japanese now live in Shanghai alone. The flood the other way is even more impressive: at half a million strong, Chinese legal immigrants now make up the largest group of recently arrived foreigners in Japan - and, no, they're not just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than 80,000 Chinese students...
...time, nobody wants to see barbed wire cutting Jerusalem in two, as was the case from 1948 to 1967. Those in East Jerusalem look to the Israeli side for work opportunities and health care. The mere rumor that Israelis and Palestinians might reach an accord in Annapolis prompted a flood of applicants for Israeli citizenship, but only a lucky few will get it; most East Jerusalem Arabs have Jordanian passports. The rush was telling; however much Arabs may feel harassed by Israelis, they fear that annexation of East Jerusalem by the current thuggish Palestinian leadership would lead to a spillover...
Like Hurricane Katrina or the California wildfires, this drought was a natural event transformed into a natural disaster by human folly. And while it's still hard to say whether global warming caused any particular drought or flood or fire, it's going to cause more of all of them...