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...question, then, is, Do we want to create a broad new housing-related entitlement...
...Daniel Weldon, Portland, Ore. Not yet, but it opens up the door for all kinds of cell-phone-based banking facilities, health-care facilities, marketing facilities. Now you can think of lots of possibilities. The cell-phone [network in Bangladesh] has been laid out, so now it's a question of bringing the programs and content to those things...
...question for China's leaders was never whether to modernize - but how. During the Maoist era a variety of economic models were experimented with, each of which achieving some modicum of growth. Yet all of them left China lagging far behind the West and East Asia. The costs of some initiatives, like the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1960, were catastrophic in human and environmental terms. It was not until Deng and Chen Yun, another reform-minded Politburo member, returned to power in 1978 from internal exile that the economic course was changed. (See pictures of a new look...
...Some historians of China think they see the telltale signs of dynastic decline: government corruption, social discontent (especially in the countryside), autocratic rulers and a militarizing state. Some contemporary China experts also voice their doubts - proclaiming the regime fragile and the political system ossified - while economists question how long the dynamic growth can continue...
...latter reason, allow us to raise another question: is a book really a book if it can't be read? So, if these "objects" are not books after all, then perhaps this room is not a library either. Just sayin'. (Off with the bars...