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Sometimes the tea was bitter. Other times it was cloyingly sweet with condensed milk. But the whispered questions at teahouses in Rangoon and across Burma were always delivered the same way. Head flick to the right, head flick to the left. A nervous glance backward. No one listening, not even the waiter shuffling up to slosh hot water into our glasses? Good. What did I, as an American who had the good fortune to vote in one of the most exciting presidential races in recent memory, think of Burma's upcoming national elections...
...pocket, is part of the one-billion-units-per-year-in-sales handset industry. Providing the operating software and other key components for wireless devices is almost certainly the next big thing for tech companies from Google to Yahoo (YHOO) to Microsoft to Adobe (ADBE). Trying to milk more money out of the PC gets harder and harder. For the largest companies in the industry, it has become a zero sum game. (See pictures of the 50 best websites...
Sometimes the tea was bitter. Other times it was cloyingly sweet with condensed milk. But the whispered questions at teahouses across Burma were always delivered the same way. Head flick to the right, head flick to the left. A nervous glance backward. No one listening, not even the waiter shuffling up to slosh hot water into our glass tumblers? Good. What did I, as an American who had the good fortune to vote in one of the most exciting presidential races in recent memory, think of Burma's upcoming national elections...
...denied suitor: Coca-Cola, the iconic American brand that has 35 beverage factories in China, producing everything from soft drinks to milk tea. The industry in question: the fruit-juice business, heretofore never thought of as strategically vital in China or anywhere else. (See pictures of trade between China and Africa...
Healthy Eating In "Eat your greens" you classified milk and cheese as unhealthy foods [March 2]. It is dangerous to demonize dairy, which is absolutely essential for our health. You cannot replace it with vegetables or soya. The French board for nutrition and health advises the consumption of three helpings of dairy products a day, and four for children, adolescents and the elderly. Indeed, dairy contains the calcium, proteins and vitamin D our body needs, especially at certain times of life. It is dangerous to make people believe that they can do without them, for the specious reason that...