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...issue arrived just in time for Christmas. While I admire 10 Questions subject Richard Branson as an adventurer and businessman, I think you overdid it with the picture. Branson looked like a Western vision of Christ: long, flowing hair; beard; eyes raised to heaven. All he lacked was a crown of thorns. Gerald White, PORT ORCHARD, WASH...
...Palestinian state and criticized his campaign to pressure Iran over its nuclear program. On occasion, senior Arab officials contradicted or disputed Bush's pronouncements even before he left their countries. Perhaps the unkindest cut of all was an editorial in the Saudi Gazette, comparing back-to-back visits by Western leaders to Riyadh this week. "It would be difficult to argue that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to the Kingdom was not in almost every way a success," the paper said, adding, with an unmistakable swipe at Bush: "It's refreshing to see a Western leader come...
Whether or not the ongoing contract dispute devolves into a strike on Jan. 30, this quagmire will have served to remind us that a substantive overhaul of Amtrak is long overdue. The American rail system lags far behind its counterparts in Western Europe and Japan, and it will not catch up anytime soon if Congress insists on simply continuing to subsidize the lackluster and stagnating rail system...
...With an audience estimated at 78 million people, online video is big business in China: Western venture capitalists have poured $120 million into the industry since 2004, according to CCID Consulting, a leading Chinese IT firm. Tudou.com, China's largest video sharing website, serves more than a billion minutes of video per day, some 30% more than YouTube. "People spent twice as long on Tudou than on YouTube ," says CEO Gary Wang, who founded the company in Shanghai in 2005. "They really get in and get stuff they don't typically...
...Western states have jumped ahead on climate change in part because the effects of global warming seem more obvious out in the country. City dwellers can insulate themselves from changing weather patterns, but Montanans, who live much of their lives outdoors, feel when the climate is changing. "No matter what their education level, they know the winters are getting warmer," says Schweitzer. "Our forests are dying - in the summer they burn. People see this...