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...Obama stopped by last Christmas to buy a treat for his children. "We're all wishing that he'll stop by again," Yi says. "We call what he ordered: Obama's Special Shave Ice. Lemon lime and cherry flavor. People come in and ask for what he ordered." (See Pico Iyer's chance encounter with Obama in Hawaii...
Watch a video about the Pico projector...
...just in electronics. Taichung-based Giant Bicycles is one of the top three bicycle brands in the U.S. and Europe. And Taiwan companies continue to show an ability to innovate. For example, Optoma, a leading maker of digital projectors, recently created the world's smallest projector, the Pico PK101. Delta Electronics, a supplier of power adapters, is coming out next year with a full-color e-book reader that is thinner and lighter than Amazon's Kindle and plays video...
...handful of closely escorted foreign reporters (TIME's applications to visit Lhasa have been repeatedly refused) out of Tibet since the protests last March, means that ethnically Tibetan areas of China are now effectively sealed off from the world. (Read TIME's 2008 cover story by Pico Iyer about the Dalai Lama...
Proud to Be ... You and Me Pico Iyer's essay in which he says the U.S. needs to be "in tune" with the rest of the world was quite apt [Nov. 17]. A little over a month ago, while my family and I were having dinner in Coullier, France, and discussing the upcoming election, a British woman overheard us, and very seriously she told us, "The whole world is watching." I regarded the statement as a little overdramatic until I saw how the international community reacted when Obama was elected. I now look back on that night in France...