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...Part of the reason co-evolution could work is that it puts China alongside the U.S. in thinking about these new rules. That won't be easy. The U.S. is used to telling the rest of the world what to do. It will require energetic diplomacy. Practically, one item on Obama's agenda this week should be starting to retire the forum we now use for engaging China - something called the Strategic and Economic Dialogue - which is sort of like an annual parent-teacher conference with China. The slow-moving dialogue drives issues at a pace largely irrelevant to what...
...million for a Super Bowl ad and spots on Spanish radio and soap operas and Dora the Explorer. The ads are meant to boost the response rate, since any household that doesn't mail back its form gets visited by a Census worker, another pricey line item. In all, it will work out to about $49 per person, which makes you wonder whether the government should have just sent an e-mail instead of a packet that looks like junk mail. (How about spending a little more money on design?) But the Census officials worried about privacy, so the increasingly...
...other item: Avatar demonstrated that 3-D could bring studios gigantic bundles of cash. For ages, the rule of movie exhibition has been that customers pay the same price for a movie that cost $250 million to make (say, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as for one that cost $15,000 (Paranormal Activity). But 3-D changes all that. You can charge audiences the moon to see a 3-D movie, and if you show it, they will come. The extra cost of making a movie in the format, or of jerry-building 3-D effects...
...expectation of the high circulation that it now faces. Member libraries pay for storage in an inefficient client-based business model, in which a book’s owner—a particular school within the University—pays for all of the costs associated with the item, even if the beneficiary is affiliated with another unit...
...Spain called Nidec, which was named in the report, says his company removed its stun cuffs from its website after receiving a letter from Amnesty International alerting it to the new law in 2006. "That was the end of the story for us - we have not sold this item at all," he says. (See TIME's coverage of the 2010 World Economic Forum...