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...attendee Patrick Tam, CEO of Beijing Tsing Capital, says he is investing heavily in Chinese clean-tech companies - most recently in a Beijing firm called NetPower Technologies, which makes a battery that helps power-hungry businesses reduce their electricity consumption. "The government is just letting the venture-capital market rip in this field," says Tam. "It's exactly what needs to happen to develop new technologies and new jobs in China. I think in a lot of ways this is our future...
...focusing on bringing real change to Washing— Oh, sorry, we mean the UC. “You usually see the same thing: a ticket claiming experience and increased transparency and another one saying the UC isn’t relevant to students and we need to rip the structure apart,” James says. “I was getting tired of that because it doesn’t really change anything.” What needs to change, according to James, is the culture and the mentality of the UC. If you feel like you?...
...political clash is being played out through dueling documents posted on each group's website. It could rip apart the governing coalition, although Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh insists that the dispute "won't reach the breaking point." (See pictures of an Iraq where the loudest noise may now be politics...
...Netherlands, where he works as a tailor. As he gets ready to sleep on the floor of the ferry, Said shows off his red-and-black Korean-made ski jacket, which he bought in Iran for $60 before hiking over the mountain border to Turkey. There's a rip along one of the sleeves. "But it is warm," Said says with a smile. "Very important to be warm...
...Year-Old Virgin, able to wait a century till he finds his soulmate, his conscience a constant chaperone that keeps things from getting out of hand. As my colleague Lev Grossman put it, "It's never quite clear whether Edward wants to sleep with Bella or rip her throat out or both, but he wants something, and he wants it bad, and you feel it all the more because he never gets it. That's the power of the Twilight books: they're squeaky, geeky clean on the surface, but right below it, they are absolutely, deliciously filthy...