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...Sure, we often complain about the flood of all of this “unwanted” information about others’ lives onto our computer screens, but more often than not, our gripes ring hollow. The truth of the matter is, most of us don’t value our own or others’ privacy as much as we claim to. With PerezHilton.com getting millions of hits per day and the quick death of the facebook.com Mini-feed uproar, the proof is in the pudding...
...Moreover, India is obsessed with China. Mainland goods from refrigerators to clothes to cameras to children's toys flood Indian markets. China's pavilion is the most popular by far at the India International Trade Fair, which opened in Delhi last week and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors some days. (At one stand, The Hindu newspaper noted with amazement, punters can buy not only a pair of bargain-priced Chinese jeans, but also the Chinese machinery that makes them.) Indian newspapers are talking up the idea of an emerging "Chindia" - a phrase coined by Indian economist Jairam Ramesh - that...
Inevitably, the flood of money has left some members of the art world in China unhappy. "Modern art in China has become a monster," says respected collector Guan Yi. "People's attention is no longer focused on the art itself but [on] what kind of return they will get on their investment, like the stock market...
...Monday Night Football game to commemorate the tragedy—is packed with heavy-handed symbolism. The opening shots show a New Orleans digitally edited to emphasize the bands’ beliefs: a sign that reads “Humanity Street” floats in the shoulder-high flood waters as sad chords linger in the background; crowds of victims wait for assistance as Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong asks “How long now?” The digitized military enters next, flying back from Iraq to airlift the victims to safety. To the video?...
...corruption, secrecy and state intervention. Rules are often ignored in business dealings here - and the WTO is all about rules, from treating foreign companies fairly to dropping tangled customs regulations. But the largest obstacle may be persuading U.S. legislators - mindful of the impact on the U.S. of the flood of cheap imports and outsourcing that followed China's WTO admission in 2001 - to extend normal trading partner status to Vietnam. Passage of permanent normal trade relations status, usually a WTO formality, failed this week in the House of Representatives as legislators struggled to muster the requisite two-thirds majority...