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...local government tentatively plans to turn the remains of the city into a memorial park and build a new downtown 12 miles (20 km) to the south. Zhang now heads the Beichuan Department of Commerce, working to attract new businesses and industrial development. He hopes to bring in building-material companies that will develop earthquake-resistant products. Once Beichuan is rebuilt, a process that is estimated to take three years, Zhang hopes that the firms can then produce materials for seismic hazard zones elsewhere in China and abroad. The strain on Zhang and other local bureaucrats is severe. A quarter...
...People are trying to say this is very important, and so on. You must welcome that, you know.FM: What do you think of Barack Obama, a man of African descent, winning the U.S. Presidential election?Achebe: Yes, well it was a most extraordinary event. I think it will turn out to be one of the most extraordinary events in the world. And I had my doubts all along. I couldn’t resist, I couldn’t put aside the feeling that someone is going to pull something at some point which will show that...
...love clicking and watching (and clicking and reading and clicking and chatting), the passing of TRL is a reminder that the media institutions that I always viewed as essential and contemporary are fading away. TRL’s viewership has been dropping since its peak at the turn of the century, and its daily average number of viewers of more than 700,000 over the past 10 years pales in comparison to MTV’s top rated show right now—The Hills—which regularly lures four million...
Other legal proceedings against the Bush Administration are starting up. A federal judge in Washington this month ordered the White House to turn over a series of legal memos written to justify electronic eavesdropping without a warrant in a case brought against the Administration by the American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups. According to the ruling, the judge will review the memos to determine whether any information can be released publicly under the Freedom of Information Act, despite objections from the Justice Department, which is citing attorney-client privilege and national security concerns for refusing to divulge...
Just four hours after being re-elected House minority leader, John Boehner sat down exclusively with TIME to talk about how he plans ti turn around the Republican Conference after a net loss of 50 House seats over the past two election cycles, who's to blame for the losses and why he's not a caretaker leader...