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...Loud on Astralwerks that the band entered the critical limelight. That album title was a succinct statement of the band’s philosophy, but Riot on an Empty Street is no closer to riotous than the debut. The band’s two members, Erland Øye and Erik Glambek Bøe, have yet to stray formula that the first album’s name denoted, as opposed to the solo work of Øye, which ventures into laptop production and indie electronica. The balance of band members will surely be on show in concert: while...
...Weimar in Germany. The new town, which will soon house some 30,000 distinctly un-German people, was designed by Albert Speer, son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect. Forty kilometers away in Songjiang, barefoot migrant workers are building another massive satellite city, this time a vision of ye olde England with tidy Tudor cottages, cobbled paths, a giant castle and a garden maze. In Pujiang, another Shanghai suburb, 100,000 citizens will soon occupy an Italian dreamscape complete with languid canals. In all, at least 500,000 people are expected to live in Shanghai's seven new satellite towns...
...your lives: It will save you from wasted time and frustration, help you avoid embarrassing trips to the help desk in the Science Center basement—it might even improve your grades and make you wealthier and more appealing to members of the opposite sex. The gift, oh ye weary users of Microsoft Internet Explorer (Mac users who browse with Safari may continue to tune in, but your lot is not quite so dire), is Mozilla Firefox—an alternate web browser and the answer to your subconscious prayers...
...culture laggard, has hopped on the bandwagon. The upcoming The Ghost Inside?at $600,000, the country's most expensive scary movie?transplants the single-mom-in-a-creepy-apartment formula to an impersonal, rapidly modernizing mainland city. Despite the tight budget, its cast includes Beijing heartthrob Liu Ye and Taiwanese TV-drama princess Barbie Hsu. For now, though, the hotbed of Asian dread remains Japan, where Ichise presides over his assembly line of scares. In the next two years he plans to release at least four more Japanese ghost movies, including one each by Nakata and Shimizu...
...deposits remains about 2%. In other words, Chinese lose money when they park cash in legitimate banks. It now appears that savers in Zhejiang, who have few legal investment options, are lending their cash directly to friends or are turning more of their nest eggs over to people like Ye, who pays higher interest rates than banks. Government figures show that depositors in Wenzhou?the financial heart of Zhejiang province?have withdrawn at least $1.2 billion in bank savings since February, according to the city's branch of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC...