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...When the national emergency abates, much of China will revert to its familiar ways, of course. But something is fundamentally different. There is a new confidence in the ability, even duty, of ordinary Chinese to contribute to building a more virtuous society and a willingness to press the government for the right to continue. Most of the volunteers were doing so for the first time, for example, and many said they were eager to do more community work in the future. Says Jiang: "It's a major leap forward in the formation of China's civil society, which is vital...
...Spreading the News The volunteers' dedication has been covered in the state media with almost the same enthusiasm as the performance of People's Liberation Army rescue crews. The normally muzzled Chinese press has been freed by the information ministry to saturate the airwaves with quake coverage. The leash was also loosened for the unruly Internet. Popular blogs were relatively uncensored; commentators posting to mainstream discussion forums were even allowed to criticize the government's handling of some aspects of relief operations - the failure to use helicopters during the first three days after the quake, for example. As surprising...
...groundswell to demand a halt to global warming or killing in Darfur, a virtual community unmoored from geography can deliver a critical mass. And once converted, advocates are far better informed than a generation ago. They can hear the personal tales of aid workers over Skype. When the Western press steers clear, they can access and share local media reports. Thanks to what Chris Anderson called the "long tail," far more documentaries are available than when movie theaters and video stores catered only to the most popular side of the market. Netflix carries close to 7,500 documentaries, allowing people...
...time, Labour ministers announced plans on May 9 to extend debt-advice services and free legal representation to those at risk of losing their homes. Yet just days later, as Housing Minister Caroline Flint entered Brown's Downing Street home, her briefing notes - inadvertently visible to a throng of press photographers - revealed her own department's fears that "we can't know how bad it will get." Brown knows a painful downturn could help to turf him out of Downing Street. Like many other Britons, he'd like a market that at least lets him hang on to what...
...billionaire did not venture out amongst the Neapolitan people, where he might have not gotten a wholly warm welcome. More than 1,000 police were called up for the event, and tension was running high, with several dumpsters upended and constant chanting against the government. In a post-meeting press conference at the Palazzo Reale, where past kings resided, Berlusconi vowed to "make Naples bloom again...