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...understand why, let's go back to May 2005. Back then, CEOs loved China because it had become the world's low-cost, increasingly high-quality manufacturing hub. They loved its vast and growing ranks of middle-class consumers. Most of all, the capitalist bosses loved working with officials of the nominally communist Chinese government, who were far easier to deal with than the politicians back home. And why not? On one side, you had autocrats who feared losing their grip on power if the economy didn't keep growing; on the other were autocrats who feared losing their grip...
...rapid-fire innovation we're seeing around Twitter is not new, of course. Facebook, whose audience is still several times as large as Twitter's, went from being a way to scope out the most attractive college freshmen to the Social Operating System of the Internet, supporting a vast ecosystem of new applications created by major media companies, individual hackers, game creators, political groups and charities. The Apple iPhone's long-term competitive advantage may well prove to be the more than 15,000 new applications that have been developed for the device, expanding its functionality in countless ingenious ways...
...Sascha Pallenberg, founder of netbooknews.com, says according to consumer polls conducted by his website, the vast majority of consumers - 87% - buy netbooks for their longer battery life. (Form factor was also mentioned as the key reason for buying by 70% of those polled...
...squeezing the calf and watching the ankle move; on the good side, it wiggles up and down when we squeeze. On the torn side, there's no motion at all. Yes, there is an occasional partial tear that might be harder to diagnose, but in the vast majority of cases, an orthopedist who simply looks, listens and feels will make the diagnosis of Achilles-tendon rupture - with confidence. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...years (though they have yet to fill in the specifics). The insurance industry now says it is willing to make concessions it never would have considered before - like agreeing to set prices on policies without regard to an individual's health history - in exchange for the access to the vast new market that would come with universal coverage. "Nobody here in our industry is defending or wants the status quo," says Karen Ignagni, who heads the leading insurance lobby group. Perhaps most important, there is more agreement than ever before that for any health-care system to work, everyone...