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...changes have paid off at home. A Gallup poll earned top headlines after finding 95% support for the bid among Beijing residents. But there's another explanation for such favorable results: heavy-handed propaganda. A similar poll showing 87% support outside Beijing went unreported because "it was deemed too low," says Victor Yuan of Horizon Research, which conducted the study. Ordinary Chinese will never read a quote saying the Games "will bring Beijing's corruption to the world's attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told TIME. And they...
...public isn't buying it. More than half the country is convinced the tax investigation is a political witch-hunt, according to a poll by broadcaster MBC and Gallup Korea. It was certainly a big operation: more than 400 full-time tax inspectors worked over five months. The fines are also among the heftiest ever imposed. According to Yang Seung Ham, a professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul: "This was definitely a political decision. The government decided it couldn't postpone doing something about the media...
...Kids will be able to retrieve assignments and hand in homework via the school's Web pages. That's especially appealing to older students: with no secondary school in town, they currently face a daily two-hour bus commute. Other, unexpected innovations are sure to follow. Opinion pollster Norsk Gallup is participating in the experiment to gauge the effect of high-speed Internet access. As Eck puts it: "We want to see how broadband changes people's lives...
...those who use online resources to supplement whatever observances they perform can emerge more learned, with a greater perspective - the fruits of interaction. "I have heard pastors say the Internet and chat rooms provide at least an initial semblance of 'community' for young people," says George Gallup Jr., author of The Next American Spirituality, "and that this involvement could lead to deepened and more informed faith - and eventually to 'live community.'" For the curious, there is room to explore and no pressure for commitment. And for the truly committed: anyone who e-mails a statement of faith to Brother Dave...
People are notoriously comfortable in their own, private vehicles, making the Car Confabulation unlike any other form of in-person communication: when asked in Gallup polls, 90 percent of Americans say they would not give up their commutes if given the choice. Much like runners and swimmers and cyclists claim to accomplish their deep thinking while lost in the automatic motions of exercise, driving allows a mindless, purposeful action to take place in a seemingly private setting, creating the optimal environment for deep thought to occur...