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...authors of Big China Books have two things in common: a conviction that they know what will happen next (even though the P.R.C. has been defying the best guesses of pundits and academic specialists alike for decades) and an ability to provide easy-to-summarize answers to Big Questions. The most successful and widely reviewed tend to have theses spelled out in provocative titles that fit into ongoing point-counterpoint debates or give rise to new ones. When China Rules the World is a case in point. Its appearance immediately triggered an expected rebuttal from Hutton, and inspired Big China...
...begins with the author recounting his quixotic efforts to follow the Great Wall by car, depending on flawed maps that sometimes left large sections blank (for political reasons) and often seemed hopelessly out of date right after being issued (due to how fast new thoroughfares are being built). The next section describes Hessler's experiences living in a north China village that is transformed by the construction of a new road that links it to Beijing. The book concludes with a look at the economic dynamics of "instant cities" that keep springing up along a highway south of the Yangtze...
...only to see Walt Disney acquire the company and shift its focus. (Yes, the Mouse House could have been Google before Google.) So in 1999, he and a friend did what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs do: they raised $1.2 million in venture capital, added another $10 million to that the next year, and started up Baidu back home in Beijing. (Read "Google and China: Silicon Valley Is No Longer King...
...next logical step? Teach patients to be better scientists. In 2011, ALS researchers plan to launch a crash course similar to one offered for the past two years to Parkinson's patients; in three days it teaches laypeople why clinical studies should be controlled and blinded, and how to evaluate outcomes and assess journal articles...
...that's exactly the scenario that was implied - and, Times bosses hope, staved off - by the recent announcement that next year the paper will begin charging for online access. The Times is possibly the most authoritative paper in the world and the most influential online, with 17 million monthly readers. It's done well in most media - except the print medium that's green and is issued by the U.S. Mint...