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...Beijing not only wants Hong Kong to be part of China but a part of a China that hasn't changed much since the Cultural Revolution." Hong Kong's democrats believe that China's tactics will help not only them but also pro-independence forces in Taiwan, who carefully monitor whether "two systems" is working in Hong Kong. "China's leaders always do things that achieve the opposite effect of what they desire," says legislator Emily Lau. "If they carry on, they may actually get Chen Shui-bian re-elected in Taiwan, and get the democrats in Hong Kong...
...Center (NOC) of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF). Dispatchers at the railway's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, sit hunched over computers 24/7, directing trains for the nation's second largest railroad and tracking shipments of everything from coal to Wal-Mart clothing. Nine megascreens monitor the flow of goods on 200,000 railcars across 33,000 miles of track--Chinese merchandise rolling east from California, Midwest grain heading west and then to Asia, FedEx packages crisscrossing the nation. Last year this "old economy" business racked up record revenues of $9.4 billion...
Stephen is not in Vegas. He's watching a video monitor in Paul Glimcher's neural-science lab at New York University. And his head is plugged into a high-powered Siemens functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner (fMRI). His name is not actually Stephen; he's a composite research subject. Glimcher is at the frontal lobe of an intriguing network of brain researchers and economists who are using advanced medical technology to try to figure out why people make the decisions they do--what brand of cereal, which mutual fund--and what part of the brain tells them...
Sifers knew Pettit as a hockey and lacrosse teammate—not to mention his hall monitor during his sophomore year. Sifers vividly remembers one practice that year when he was defending Pettit and made the mistake of watching the puck rather than playing the body. Pettit deftly pushed the puck through Sifers’s legs. “He burned me,” Sifers admitted...
...Lavalas senators who had assumed power in the contentious May elections. But the U.S. continued to side with the opposition, who unconditionally demanded that Aristide leave office before he completed his term in 2005. Aristide offered to hold an early round of presidential elections, but the U.S. refused to monitor them, citing security concerns. Aristide was caught in a catch-22: he couldn’t rebuild the police force without first receiving the foreign aid that would be disbursed only after he had improved security...