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...delegation had come to discuss are not all figments of uninformed American imaginations. For a start, those pirated DVDs of first-run Hollywood movies available for 75 cents on the streets of Shanghai are all too real-despite repeated pledges from the Chinese government to crack down on rampant intellectual-property theft. And China's trade surplus, which rocketed to $177.5 billion in 2006 and has risen from less than 2% of its total economy to around 7% in five years-surely Beijing has something to do with that. But instead of substance, the Americans got a soliloquy-which...
...answer: not much-at least not immediately. In theory, the global Internet is highly resistant to catastrophic failure because it's a mesh of interconnected smaller networks, all providing alternative data pathways should any single link fail. Indeed, Asia's abundant data capacity and plentiful circuits-a legacy of rampant overbuilding of undersea cable during the tech boom-ensured that most traffic was quickly rerouted after the quake, restoring crucial services such as phone connections. Some of the overflow was also handled by satellite systems, which are normally too costly and lack the bandwidth of terrestrial networks...
...this era of rampant and unbridled narcissism, you have made the perfect choice. Thanks for the mirror. I just can't take my eyes off me, me, me. BRIAN O'NEIL Alameda, Calif...
...ahead with new legislative elections despite Israel's misgivings and warnings from the Fatah leadership that elections would weaken their position. And sure enough, Hamas took the opportunity to contest its first-ever PA elections, which it won handily as the electorate repudiated Abbas's party for its rampant corruption and its failed political strategy...
...society haunted by decades of political turmoil and reeling from wild economic growth and rampant corruption, the concept of the law as a way to settle disputes or win justice remains a novelty. Still, over the past two decades, the law and the legal system have begun to take root. China's leaders, including President Hu Jintao, speak often of the importance of "administering the country according to law." The legal profession and legal education have mushroomed; China's government has enacted thousands of new laws; and major institutions like the legislatures and the courts have been strengthened and professionalized...