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Every time a 13-year-old in rural Peru or Tuvalu touches a keyboard, she bypasses the Industrial Revolution and rockets into the Information Age. She can network, learn calculus, study crop-growing techniques, or e-mail a hospital for advice on illness treatment. She can access a wealth of...
Artist Heide Hatry channels Victor Frankenstein as she stitches together pieces of pigskin to make female figures. And like Frankenstein’s monster, the masquerade of life she creates never takes on fully human form, instead leaving the viewer in shock and disgust. Hatry’s current exhibition...
These optimists are focusing on some surprising data emerging from the Chinese economy. The purchasing managers index (PMI) - a measure of the health of the manufacturing sector - has inched upward since November, indicating that China's important industrial sector isn't decelerating as quickly as it did in the preceding...
Even at cut-rate prices, there will still be fewer chickens to fry. At the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, home to many of Taiwan's flagship technology companies, more than three out of four workers are currently taking unpaid leave at least one day a week. Ryan Wu, chief...
In short, Asia's growth model resembles a vast Ponzi scheme, one that is precariously perched on the expectation that Americans will continue buying more and bigger TVs, computers and cars forever - which in turn allows Asia to forever goose its growth by adding industrial capacity to feed the West...