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...reporters in Sydney before embarking on a trans-Pacific flight last Wednesday, is Alternative Prime Minister of Australia. As he fronts this week's ALP national conference for the first time as leader, Rudd will be playing to his party's supreme policy-making body. The former diplomat and high-level technocrat is not a creature of Labor's factions or union base, which makes him stronger outside the party than within it. If the polls are accurate, people are wild about Rudd, who is trying to convince them that Labor will provide a more prosperous future while the government...
...just a prisoner of history. Since then the two nations have toned down the hostile rhetoric and found patches of common ground-like stopping North Korea's nuclear program. The good vibes culminated with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to Japan on April 11 to 13, the first high-level Chinese visit in nearly seven years. But while it was all smiles and bows in Tokyo this week, China and Japan remain wary rivals at best. "The two sides realized they hadn't talked with each other for years, and that simply wasn't sustainable," says Malcolm Cook, director...
...entirely. "I think it's pretty clear now that sleep and dreaming serve to process memories from the last day and all the way back," he says. "Sleep can strengthen memories... and help extract the meaning of events by building associative networks with other memories. Dreaming is probably a high-level version of this processing." Clearly, he adds, you don't have to remember your dreams for these processes to work. "The brain is tuning your memory circuits as you sleep, and remembering the imagery created during this process may be fun, may be instructive, but is almost undoubtedly...
...inherent risks, parkour encourages good habits. The sport is heavy on discipline and self-improvement. True traceurs don't smoke (because it would hurt their endurance) or run under the influence (because it would hurt their balance and agility). "The problem is that people see all these videos of high-level stuff, so they go home, jump off their roof and wonder why they blow out their knees," says Tyson Cecka, 20, a sophomore at the University of Washington who just spent a week in Los Angeles doing parkour for a sneaker commercial. "They don't understand that...
Well, for example, I just came back from Motorola. I followed Colin Powell, if you can believe that. I got a room full of high-level executives who are fans of the show, and it gives me a chance to talk about the Puritan work ethic. People with dirty jobs have tons of lessons to teach...