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Even in the booming Pearl River delta--China's furniture stronghold--research, innovation and technical know-how have failed to keep pace with production. But that too may change. According to Eric Kan, whose Hong Kong-- based Oasis Global Sourcing designs and procures luxury housewares on the mainland, "Chinese factories have improved dramatically in the past three to five years in terms of their attention to detail." Kan outfitted the Sands Casino in Macau, and is at work furnishing a Manhattan clubhouse for the Ciprianis, the Venetian family that owns namesake hotels and restaurants around the world. Factories in China...
When Ang Lee thanked "everybody in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China" last week while accepting a Best Director Oscar for his gay-cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, the mainland returned the love. The state-run China Daily called Lee "the pride of the Chinese people all over the world" and "the glory of Chinese cinematic talent." But it ignored the fact that Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province. Lee's shout-out to his fellow Taiwanese was excised from the mainland broadcast of the Oscars?as was a speech on gay love, which...
...torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings on the French mainland, the court cleared Jean Castela and Vincent Andriuzzi of participating in the conspiracy to murder Erignac. The trial laid bare many gaps - and some false evidence - in the case police aided prosecutors to build. For example, transcripts of testimony dated Aug. 20, 1998, supposedly incriminating the men, included references to events...
...North Atlantic, meanwhile, scientists have been warning for more than two decades about an influx of freshwater--not just from Greenland but also from melting icebergs and increasing mainland runoff. The resulting drop in salinity could change the density of surface water enough to prevent it from sinking as it cools and returning south to the tropics where it can replenish ocean currents like the Gulf Stream. And because the Gulf Stream is the only reason much of Western Europe has so mild and temperate a climate, such a shutdown of that conveyor belt of heat could be nothing short...
...turned to the Kuna Indians in the San Blas islands of Panama, who consume three to four cups of flavonol-rich cocoa a day. The Kuna Indians on the islands rarely have high blood pressure, according to Hollenberg, which is not true of those Kuna who move to the mainland and, on average, consume less than four cups a week. —Staff writer Alexander N. Li can be reached at anli@fas.harvard.edu...