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...Development, Attali won fame for calling the U.S. financial collapse as early as 2006 - giving him more credibility than the average soothsayer. However, many of his predictions range from the absurd to the, well... predictable. His belief that Israel must keep its status as a regional power in order to survive is not exactly rocket science, while his belief that a utopia of altruistic "transhumans" will emerge from the ashes of mid-21st century planetary warfare is a bit hard to swallow...
...clear,” Rice says.Rice refers to the project as an example of the way in which the Internet has challenged traditional notions of novel writing. Not only has the divide between artist and observer gradually deteriorated—as people from various fields of expertise connect in order to create the site and its story—but the creation of art itself has the potential to shift from a personal, private act to a public, open-ended experience.According to Helen Thorington, Co-Director of New Radio and Performing Arts (NRPA), the idea of art and the word...
...funding, and his Inaugural Address - in which he vowed to "restore science to its rightful place" - served notice that he would not wait long to do so. So it didn't come as a surprise to Catholics when, on the morning of March 9, the President signed an Executive Order allowing research on embryonic stem cells to go forward after an eight-year halt. Obama's forceful explanation for his decision, however, took them aback...
...results will not be made official until May 9, several national surveys showed similar numbers, all indicating a rise of the Democratic Party and the slow demise of the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), both of which came of age during Suharto's New Order regime. The Golkar party, the former president's political vehicle, dropped from garnering 21.6% of the national vote in 2004 to just 14.5% today, while the PDIP, led by former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, slipped from...
...CLSA analyst Chris Wood says that recent improvements in China's economy can be attributed partly to a surge in bank lending that began in November. This, he notes, could only happen in an authoritarian country such as China, where the government can - and did - order the banks to lend. "The bottom line is that if this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China...