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...Hong Kong is now a part of China with its own laws, a set-up known as "one country-two systems." Nowhere is the demarcation more striking than at its border with Shenzhen?a line that Hong Kong people can cross freely but most mainlanders can only gaze at. The one-way traffic has become a nonstop flood: up to 200,000 people a day, 100 million crossings a year, numbers likely to triple by 2010. (Currently the border is open 16 hours a day; some want it to be 24/7.) Hong Kong businessmen have poured $15 billion into...
...trying to kill something: Washington's seamy money culture. The Arizona Senator has just finished an event with a 1,500-lb. pig named Rootie, his accomplice in an annual unveiling of the pork hidden in the federal budget. Now he is tearing the wrong way up a one-way drive into the Capitol for a press conference with conservative Blue Dog Democrats supporting his effort to drive the pigs from the trough. After a decade of frustration, McCain's campaign-finance-reform bill will finally get its hearing on the Senate floor, without threat of filibuster, this week...
...outbound traffic and erect a firewall establish Harvard as a parasitic user of the Internet, explicitly taking more that it gives. Not only is this inherently selfish, it betrays the promise of the Internet. As more users ignore the implications and follow suit, the Internet risks transformation into a one-way stream from content providers to content consumers, rather than the rich network of information exchange it could be. Harvard has the resources and prestige to make decisions such as this based on factors other than dollars and bytes and should try to save the Internet from evolving into...
...Star Wars community, both actions are equally important. A more "academic" example might be open-source software, which depends on a unique kind of active, community-wide participation. A firewall, however, adopts the misguided narrow view that--for the majority of us--the Internet is only valuable as a one-way street...
...often be found flitting around jetBlue's gates at Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy Airport, the company's home base, chatting with the passengers filling his spanking-new blue-and-white jets. From J.F.K., jetBlue flies to Burlington, Vt.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Ontario, Calif.; and eight other cities. One-way fares range from...