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...ending up as the No. 1 draft pick this June." But Yao's bid is caught up in capitalist wrangling?and Chinese political calculations. His team, the Shanghai Sharks, is holding out for a hefty deal to compensate giving up its showcase player. And in a weird twist of realpolitik, Yao's chances of playing in the States could depend on his national rival Wang's hoop success in Dallas: China might not want to risk dispatching another sporting ambassador to failure. "We don't want our players to be embarrassed in the NBA," says a Beijing sportswriter...
...macabre twist on equal opportunity, a new study out of the U.S. Surgeon General's office shows women's death rates from smoking-related cancer have drawn nearly even with men's. That's something of an epidemiological sea change - back in 1965, only two out of 10 Americans who died from smoking were women, and now that number is four in 10. The numbers of men and women who smoke mirror the shift: In 1964, 52 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. Today, 26 percent of men and 22 percent of women light...
...features a freewheeling mix of rock, folk and roots music, was an Internet trailblazer: in 1995 it became the first station to go live online, and since then it has built a global following. So has texasrebelradio.com, the online home of KFAN, Fredericksburg, Texas, whose offerings have a boisterous twist. Mueller recommends Santa Monica, California's KCRW, in particular Morning Becomes Eclectic, which runs weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon Pacific time and attracts entertainment-industry insiders to its latte-friendly rock, folk, jazz and world music. And if you're looking for sports, the U.S. rules. Radio-stations.net provides...
...woes at home. Summer promises power failures in the world's sixth-largest economy, California. And at a time when U.S. consumers will be taking a hard look at their vacation budgets, OPEC is cutting oil production in anticipation of a worldwide demand slump. In a cruel twist of irony, the U.S. could find any attempted summer comeback choked off by high prices at the pump...
...above the white noise generated by the spin doctors has arisen a particularly interesting twist on the same old debate: the question of whether placing restrictions on soft money in some way restricts our fundamental right to freedom of expression. In other words, is using cold hard cash to "voice" our political preferences tantamount to speaking at a rally on a party's behalf? And if so, should this form of expression be protected under the aegis of free speech...