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...their sites blocked (in reference to the Great Firewall). By then, though, he was familiar with the techniques Chinese bloggers use to evade the authorities and managed to have his blog reappear on the Internet almost immediately by using proxy servers and mirror sites outside China. But Zhou's luck ran out when he traveled to Shenyang to interview victims of a pyramid scheme involving a supposed aphrodisiac powder made from crushed ants. Victims handed over cash and were told they would get a guaranteed 30% annual return if they kept supplying the ants. Eventually, the scheme collapsed and hundreds...
YOUR HOME: Go hunting. The number of homes sold is down--probably 13% for all of 2007--but if you're on the buying end, you might have some luck. That's especially true in light of interest-rate cuts; the average 30-year mortgage now goes for 5.57%, according to Bankrate.com near historic lows. Mark Johannessen, managing director at the asset-management firm Harris SBSB, says to consider refinancing if you can save more than half a point. And if you're in an ARM, think about moving to a fixed-rate for peace of mind in an economically...
There really is. I just got back from a book tour in China, where, obviously they have grappled with [population control] and learned the difficulties of imposing it. With luck, those will be instructive lessons. Every species in the history of biology that has reached the end of its resources has suffered a population crash. And we are going to. We've been stretching our food supply, ... force-feeding our soils with chemicals, and we've gotten to the point where it's starting to really bite back at us. There will be a population crash of humans. Either...
...ready now to play a nice, smiley heroine? Yes, I would love to play someone on the upswing of life! Someone discovering love, or some character full of positive strength that helps others. Someone who combs their hair! No such luck in Clint Eastwood's next film [The Changeling]. But the darker side of humanity is one better explored in the world of make believe than my own life. I have a lot of love and laughter in my own life, so it's a lovely trade...
...once I got to the realizaton that I was going to be held responsible for the movies, not just the performance in them, then I started picking movies that I wanted to do and getting them made when no one no one wanted to make them. Is it luck? Absolutely, every bit of it. Honestly - really, truly, luck. But when you get there, hey, somebody just gave you a big, big break, so go do something with it. What are you going to do with your life? That's how I've been playing ever since then. Also, when...