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Zhou Fukuan, a cheerful 32-year-old who runs the DVD stand across the street from my old Shanghai apartment, just smiles when I tell him that the U.S. has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China's rampant infringement of intellectual-property rights. "I hadn't heard that," he says, "but this sort of thing happens a lot-the government says they'll crack down on [piracy]. It usually lasts a few days, and then...
...little bigger than the sleeping compartments on trains. Yotel's "pod rooms" will offer a bit more space than Japanese-style cocoons. Still, they're not for the claustrophobic. The largest are just 10.5 sq m, though they're tall enough for even the most statuesque of guests to stand up in. Also jammed into that space: tiny workstations and en suite bathrooms about the size of those on jetliners that include luxury "rain showers." There are no exterior windows, allowing the pods to be stacked and clustered in sites never before considered for hotels. "It's a very flexible...
...Bryan’s appeals to creationism and hissed at Darrow’s agnostic arguments. The most bitter yelling and name-calling was saved for the final battle of wits and words between heavy-hitters Bryan and Darrow. Darrow surprised the audience by calling Bryan to the witness stand, on the premise of his Bible expertise. Darrow succeeded in lampooning the aging statesman and the audience was brought to laughter when a flustered Bryan responded to a tough question with “I do not think about what I do not think about...
...sent yesterday to 62 university presidents and chancellors, Robert Berdahl, president of the Association of American Universities, told the group's members that "even if you find that your student-aid office is doing nothing illegal, you should ask if your student-loan business arrangements, policies, and practices can stand the test of full public disclosure...
...rent pirating famously (and hilariously) depicted in an episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer agrees to smuggle a hand-held camera into a theater in order to illegally tape a movie. In a coat movie you can literally hear people coughing and half the time someone will stand up right in front of the camera. And sometimes language is an issue. I had to buy three copies of Casino Royale until I got one in English. One evening my wife was happily enjoying The Holiday (a chick flick if there ever was one) when halfway through it Cameron Diaz, Jude...