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...This article contains a detailed map. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] For a snapshot of China's global influence, just look at the planned 2008 Olympic-torch relay. The 85,000-mile route includes Chinese oil suppliers Kazakhstan and Oman and cities with large Chinese communities like San Francisco. But supporters of a free Tibet decried its inclusion, and some activists saw Vancouver's omission as retaliation for Canada's human-rights criticism of China...
...early detection of disease. Singh explains that a doctor could take digital images of a beating heart and compare them with images of a healthy heart and determine if there is an anomaly, often long before symptoms of an impending heart attack appear. Last year he moved from San Francisco to Erlangen, Germany, to run Siemens' global image- and knowledge-management business. "I have never come across any ceiling--visible or invisible," Singh says. "If you look at a 10-year span for somebody born in India, working in the U.S. and responsible for a global business at a German...
...publishing websites to produce books that showcase their work in a style comparable to that of established art-book publishers. Professional books like Kaufmann's "are the fastest-growing segment of our business," says Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb, which launched in May 2006 and is based in San Francisco. She expects revenue to reach $5 million to $10 million this year, as the company expands its printing operations with partnerships in Europe and Asia...
Blurb, like other publishing websites such as Lulu and Picaboo, is producing its share of baby books, family-recipe cookbooks and wedding albums. But its most enthusiastic users are drawn to the company's extensive design tools. Stone Yamashita Partners, a consulting firm in San Francisco, recently published a 300-page book detailing the kind of strategy work it does with clients. "Blurb provided the highest quality with the quickest turnaround we could find," says David Glickman, principal at the firm, "as well as the flexibility and control over the look, the feel and the flow...
...Andrea Rivera, one of the MC?s of the concert, said to some 700,000 youths and a national television audience: "I can't stand the fact that the Vatican refused a funeral for Welby but that wasn't the case for [Chilean dictator Augusto] Pinochet or [Spanish dictator Francisco] Franco." He also tried this one-liner: "The Pope says he doesn't believe in evolution. I agree, in fact the Church has never evolved...