Word: ideas
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...integrated into the regional economy, which is increasingly dominated by China. "The main lesson we learned in the financial tsunami is that we are only dependent on our export industry, in particular IT," says San Gee, deputy minister of Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development. The idea is to "transform our overall economy to a different stage...
...perhaps fittingly, dilapidated compared with the shiny high-rises and modern factories surrounding it. When the boxy building first opened in 1980, the same year as the park, its first officials were key players in developing Hsinchu into the premier center for Taiwan's electronics industry. Today, though, the idea that a bunch of bureaucrats can engineer industrial progress seems as out-of-date as the tattered furniture in the office's dark hallways. Read "Taiwan Scores Invite to WHO Meeting...
...allows visitors to interact with a digitally generated infant. Inside, researchers dress in blue jeans and polo shirts instead of the usual white coats, and converse in a room with movable walls. ITRI's managers encourage its Ph.D.s to spend time in the lab to help them develop new ideas. Last year, the lab launched what it calls "playful villages," discussion groups in which the researchers can meet and chat about their own special interests. "It's not that hard to get people to be more creative, given the right atmosphere," says the Creativity Lab's general director, Hsueh...
Joel Stein's placenta article made me laugh out loud more than once [July 13]. Although I saw the afterbirths of all four of my children and thought they resembled pizza, the idea of grilling them--the placentas, not the children--never crossed my mind. Tracy Thompson Khan RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA...
Recently, however, a surprisingly diverse coalition has arisen to stop the Pebble Mine. Environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are making common cause with fishermen and native Alaskans who fear that pollution from the mine could ruin their livelihoods. Sustainability - the idea that there are alternatives to exploiting natural resources without regard for the consequences - is no longer such a suspicious term. "Do we want to embrace the mine, a resource that will be played out in 50 years?" says Verner Wilson, a Yupik Eskimo and Bristol Bay native who works with WWF. "Or do we want...