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...didn't appreciate the paper's sympathetic coverage of Hunan native Zhang. The man ultimately responsible for Southern Weekend's fate is Li Changchun, Guangdong'sparty chief who is apparently President Jiang's top choice to become Premier next year. Since Li is sure to face opposition in his quest for the post, "he can't afford criticism for his own province's newspapers," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing...
Fast-moving execs have long yearned for a device that would serve as both cell phone and PDA. The quest to produce it has mostly yielded electronic Edsels. But some new gadgets are reversing the trend. In August Motorola will unveil its Accompli 009 ($600), the first such gizmo with global capability, working in most cities throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. The device comes with a GSM-based phone, Web browser, e-mail and a plethora of PDA features. Samsung's SPH-I300 ($500), also due out in August, sports a Palm OS with color screen and stylus...
...Tibetan buddhism, a mandala is a diagram depicting the relationships between man, world and divinity. Painstakingly painted with dyed sand, the circle and the square reflecting the diversity of the universe are connected by a central point, representing the highest goal in a spiritual quest. Since Buddhism began spreading from India to Tibet in the 7th century, religion has been deeply rooted in Tibetan culture and civilization. Rich in symbols, metaphors and allegories, the art too is exclusively sacred in nature, and to the devout the images retain their divine powers even when on display. Like a mandala, the exhibit...
...some Americans, the quest for safety has taken a step too far - into the precarious realm of personal space and individual privacy. Case in point: Two weeks ago, Tampa police installed 36 surveillance cameras in Ybor City, a popular entertainment district. The cameras capture the faces of pedestrians and send those images back to a police-run computer database that houses up to 30,000 photographs of wanted felons and lost children. If a face in Ybor City comes up as a match in the sophisticated system, police are dispatched to the area to get a better look...
...possibilities are, in fact, twins - the dark and light sides of the Western intellectual quest. You see the twinning in the Faust legend. In the Medieval reading of it, Faust is damned to hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act of human encroachment upon divine prerogatives. But (as Roger Shattuck points out in his splendid book "Forbidden Knowledge"), the Enlightenment gave Faust an opposite reading. The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because...