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...double-Dutch rhythm by producer Swizz Beatz, with lots of hand claps and whistles and maybe a passing marching band, it's impossible not to sway from side to side, and Beyoncé, whose voice really is a wonder, cuts through all of it with crystalline joy. Suga Mama ("I'ma be like your Jolly Rancher, that you get from the corner store/ Or I'ma be like a waffle cone that's drippin' down to the floor") is another song so exuberant in its desire to entertain that it literally invites you onto...
...Tuesday the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv claimed that three hours after Hizballah fighters ambushed an Israeli patrol, killing eight soldiers and kidnapping two others - the event that triggered the war - Haltuz called his stock broker and asked him to sell off nearly $30,000 of his shares. Haltuz got his money out just in time; the Tel Aviv stock market fell by over 8% in the first two days...
...Here's a piece of technology that should empower people from the bottom up to make self-sustaining, new forms of infrastructure. And I think the lesson here is that technology, 50 years ago, was all mega-technology. Big Blue and mainframes... Ma Bell had pieces of copper wire running from everybody's ear to everybody else's ear. It took 100 years to do it. It was big centralized power companies, nuclear power plants. Transmissions lines. Big, centralized phone companies.... And then look what happened. Communications is now point of use. You carry a cell phone. Computing - you carry...
...city of Shenzhen, cradle of China's industrial revolution, is usually associated with impoverished migrant workers and cheerless gray factories churning out cheap toys, T shirts and sneakers for the world. While that gritty image represents Shenzhen's past, entrepreneur Pony Ma is a harbinger of its future. The 34-year-old Ma is an Internet tycoon with a fortune of nearly $500 million, thanks to the success of the Shenzhen company he founded in 1998, Tencent, China's largest instant-messaging service with 532 million registered users. The company's home is a tidy, landscaped campus where employees...
...Through the wall-sized windows behind his slick, black desk, Ma overlooks steel-and-glass office towers that house similar companies, including an online-music outfit and a "virtual university" where colleges from around the country have conference centers and research labs. This small enclave of white-collar knowledge workers is a model the rest of Shenzhen must rapidly emulate if it is to continue to prosper, says Ma: "In Shenzhen, we really have to move faster than before, and take the right direction." His vision?and his sense of urgency?is shared by city officials, who have launched...