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...general manager of Li Ning USA, predicts that as Chinese soft power expands, China's tastes "will become part of the fabric of mainstream culture." Says Li: "When the tide starts to turn, we want to be one of the brands to bring a new, modern China to the rest of the world...
...gorillas' habitat would remain by 2032. But the authors say even that dire prediction was optimistic. At the time, researchers did not predict the rise in Chinese demand for timber or the extent of mining in Congo. "Ten years ago, when we did the other report, China and the rest of Asia were not major players in Africa, and now China has up to 40% of the wood-and-mineral trade," Christian Nellemann, a U.N. Environment Program official and the report's lead author, tells TIME. "We have new satellite imagery, new scientific evidence. We have new alarming reports...
What: Do you remember when Napster was more popular than iTunes, when Justin Timberlake was still part of 'NSync? While a solo career has now done wonders for JT's hair, come relive the rest of the decade that escaped you exactly 84 days ago. Admission is $5, but drinks are cheap (if you're legal). "That...
...McAuley somewhat bitterly assumes that rich students are “insulting” the rest of us when they deign to live on a budget and that they do not learn anything valuable about careful spending habits. To make his point, Mr. McAuley criticizes rich Harvard students who take the T instead of taxis, who frequent sales racks instead of high priced stores like the Tannery, and who prefer to eat in dining halls rather than patronize expensive restaurants. It is a perverse and undeserved assault...
...Netanyahu's claims may have been a crowd-pleaser at AIPAC, and they went unchallenged on Capitol Hill. Still, as far as the U.S. government and the rest of the international community is concerned, Israeli construction in East Jerusalem is settlement activity. Whereas U.S. Presidents typically use words like unhelpful to describe it, on Wednesday the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was more forthright, denouncing the new housing units planned by Israel in East Jerusalem as "illegal." Israel's claims on the parts of the city it captured in 1967 are not internationally recognized, and Netanyahu...