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...really have jet-black hair and sideburns?) So on the last day of Davos I enjoy a little ritual. After lunch, I take myself to the very top of the mountain above the town and ski the long run all the way down into Klosters. Just above that picture-postcard Swiss village, I stop at a hillside inn, have a gluhwein, and try to make sense of what I've learned. So here are this year's piste-side thoughts. We live in an uncertain world. Well, duh, you say, when has the world ever been certain? Fair enough...
...week after firewalling Justice Department requests for records of U.S. searches, Google unveiled its China site, which censors search results to placate Beijing bigwigs. LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS illustrated the effect with a search for Tiananmen images; google.cn yielded postcard shots of the Beijing square, but google com gave up scenes of the 1989 massacre. KUDLOW'S MONEY POLITICS spanked Google for "repressing free speech" abroad while protecting "kiddy porn" at home. But THE REACTION was hopeful: "Google could be the thin end of ... a wedge that ultimately leads to political reform...
...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed?Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter...
There's a new kind of e-card being sent around, but it's an invitation no one ever wants to get. InSPOTLA.org a controversial website launched in mid-December by Los Angeles County, lets people e-mail their sexual partners a free, unsigned Internet postcard--with or without a personal note--stating that the sender has had HIV or another sexually transmitted disease diagnosed and that the recipient should get tested. Targeting gay men who meet online, the program is based on the original inSPOT.org website, which began in San Francisco more than a year ago to combat...
...many visitors, a meal at Hong Kong's Jumbo floating restaurant has proven to be a mild disappointment. Although it's name-checked in many a guidebook?and appears on every other postcard dispatched from the city?the 30-year-old waterborne tourist haunt is locally infamous for its mediocre food and moribund air. But all that has changed with the opening of Top Deck, tel: (852) 2552 3331, a snazzy international restaurant on the Jumbo's uppermost level. Operated by the same team behind the almost-as-iconic Caf? Deco restaurant atop Victoria Peak, the new venue provides...