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...Along the shopping boulevards of Shanghai and Beijing, perhaps the most pernicious impact of the one-child policy soon becomes apparent. In mall after mall, children raised as "Little Emperors" drape themselves in the latest Italian leather shoes and South Korean mobile phones. Pampering yourself might seem benign. But a society consumed by consumerism, and where most urbanites grow up never learning to care for siblings or to give up any of their own needs, will become a selfish society...
...real world - which Hollywood honchos would define as the North American box office and the Oscars list - a U.S. film's showing at Cannes has little impact. In 1991, Joel and Ethan Coen's Barton Fink received an unprecedented three top awards (Palme d'Or, Best Director and, for John Turturro, Best Actor) but grossed only $6 million stateside; last year, the Coens' No Country for Old Men got no prize at Cannes, then earned nearly $75 million on domestic screens (plus $86 million abroad), and won the brothers three Oscars, including for Best Picture. Such Academy-nominated hits...
...economy - the U.S. economy is roughly a thousand times larger - has always made it volatile, partially explaining its much-discussed $2.7 billion current-account deficit. "If my father decides to build a garage onto his house, it will almost show up in national accounts," she quips. So imagine the impact of constructing two large aluminum smelters from 2005 to 2007. Those projects required the import of generators and other materials, and amounted to 35% of the nation's GDP. With aluminum prices higher than ever before, those smelters will soon turn profits - and boost national income...
...Pisani writes about AIDS, she wants people to know the unvarnished details. Her data on prevalence is gathered in nightclubs where researchers ask patrons about their sexual habits. She talks to women across Asia who have chosen prostitution because it pays better than factory work. And she studies the impact of specific sexual activities, explaining scientifically why, say, anal sex is so much riskier than vaginal sex. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS is, in other words, unlike most books on HIV policy, which shroud arguments about sex and drugs in abstract, uncontroversial terms. Pisani...
...starts with her decision in 1994 to give up journalism and study epidemiology - "Sex, drugs and plenty of squeamish politicians. AIDS was the disease for me," she writes - and ends after she quit her job in 2005, following a meeting of epidemiologists in Bangkok that left her doubting the impact of science on real-world AIDS policy. Along the way, Pisani draws on anecdotes from her time chatting with transvestite hookers, rich-kid junkies, epidemiologists and policymakers in Indonesia, where she spent a few years developing HIV surveillance systems...