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...lovely treat, something I never see at home in Hong Kong. Japan is a respite from the rest of Asia in many other ways. While much of the region is still hurtling along the path of development - a blinding whirl of frenetic construction and perpetual change - Japan is a vision of stability, a nation that has everything others in Asia want, and has already had it all for decades. Money. Technology. Global brands. A seat at the table with the powerful countries of the industrialized world. Those of us old enough will also recall that Japan used to scare...
...levy on financial-market transactions ranging from foreign-currency trades to derivatives - received a chilly reception abroad. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pooh-poohed it as "not something we're prepared to support." But Darling's call for a global bank tax could yield something closer to the U.S. vision. Such a levy might involve taxing banks' wholesale funding, in line with the Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee proposed by Obama in January...
...bigger vision is one of sustainability,” said Pamela A. Silver, co-author of the study and professor of systems biology at HMS. “Ideally you could have an organism that you could program to make anything you wanted using only sunlight—you could use it, for example, to provide energy for the third world...
Meanwhile, amidst the muddling political circus in Congress, Obama and his administration showed tenacity in refusing to forfeit their vision for reform. Campaigning on the promise of fixing America’s unfair and unsustainable healthcare system, Obama put reform at the top of his political agenda and did not allow the debate to disappear from the public consciousness. As calls to throw out the bill and begin from scratch grew raucous upon Brown’s stunning election in January, Obama and his team increased their efforts by appealing directly to members of both parties and their constituents...
...will spiral to dystopic ends. As apart as the North and South seemed when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter 150 years ago, party lines divide America today. The war we face comes with its costs of progress and efficiency, as each side fights to preserve its vision of America. The pivot of this “new secession” is not the Mason-Dixon, but a far shorter aisle separating the legislatures of America by way of our two-party system...