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- zt posted on 08/24/2007Are Americans too lazy? U.S. workers can't compete globally unless they work harder, writes Fortune's Geoff Colvin. By Geoff Colvin, Fortune senior editor-at-large August 23 2007: 6:10 AM EDT (Fortune Magazine) -- We Americans pride ourselves on being a hard-working bunch, so here's a thought to spoil your Labor Day rest: By global standards, we're lazy. We've been getting lazier. And the days of the American dolce vita may be numbered. The surprising report of our relative sloth arrives in
- ZT posted on 07/08/2007陈子明 胡温时代的历史使命是「开放社会」：解放民政部，打倒中宣部。 不久前，香港乐施会中国部顾问李昌平在接受亚洲周刊记者江迅采访时，提出了「开放经济」和「开放社会」的概念，本文加上一个「开放政治」，成为全民期望的中国开放三部曲。 邓小平、朱镕基时代的历史使命是「开放经济」，主要内容包括对内开放和对外开放。 对内开放始于开放自留地、集市贸易、包产到户；取消「以粮为纲」、「以农为主」的指令性计划，扩大经济作物面积和放开林牧副渔多种经营；允许长途贩运和雇工经营……。随后，开放
- ZT posted on 07/08/2007国家公敌：一个理想主义者的多舛人生 查建英 北京市第二监狱位于这个城市的郊区，驱车过去，单调乏味的路上看不见任何标识。入口隐在离公路大约0.1英里的后方，我通常要不断提醒出租车司机留意左边的岔道，不然很容易错过。拐进岔道，第一眼看到的，是一扇暗灰色金属大门，沉重，镶白瓷砖的拱形边框。门内站着挎长枪的警卫。四周的高墙盘满了电网，最大限度的安全设施。在紧邻大门的等候室，我把钱包和手机放进带锁的保险箱，然后出示证件，等候传唤。多年探监下来，警官们都认识我了，但仍对我保持着职业性的疏远�
- zt posted on 07/07/2007U.S. firm touts 'China-Free' label Health food company says campaign is in response to Chinese goods with quality problems. July 6 2007: 4:03 PM EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- It's bound to go down the wrong way in Beijing: A U.S. health food company will label its products "China-Free" to ease concerns about contamination. Food for Health International, based in Orem, Utah, makes whole food nutritional supplements for people and pets, and President Frank Davis said the company will begin trumpetin
- ZT posted on 07/01/2007Ryoko Suzuki (Japanese, b. 1970). Bind, 2001. Lambda print. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. (Photo: Courtesy of Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo) Pilar Albarracín (Spanish, b. 1968). Long Live Spain (Viva España), 2004. Production stills; video, 3 min. 30 sec., color, stereo sound. Lent by the artist. © Pilar Albarracín. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)
- zt posted on 06/29/2007Why Do Cats Hang Around Us? (Hint: They Can't Open Cans) Genetic Research Suggests Felines 'Domesticated Themselves' By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 29, 2007; A03 Your hunch is correct. Your cat decided to live with you, not the other way around. The sad truth is, it may not be a final decision. But don't take this feline diffidence personally. It runs in the family. And it goes back a long way -- about 12,000 years, actually. Those are among the inescapable c
- ZT posted on 06/29/2007智利《信使报》5月19日发表文章，介绍世界首富比尔•盖茨妻子梅琳达•盖茨鲜为人知的故事。文章摘要如下： 梅琳达看着丈夫比尔•盖茨，问他：“咱们能做点儿什么？”这位世界首富的夫人刚刚看到了一篇关于造成数百万儿童死亡的疾病的报道。她很受震撼。在访问刚果（金）期间，她瞭解到了那里的人们的生活状况，心中的忧虑感始终挥之不去。她知道她应该为他们做些什么。回来之后她说的第一句话是：“非洲永远改变了我。”2000年1月，“比尔和梅琳达•盖茨基金会”让她的想法得以实现，从那时起，她就成为了最大的社会慈善
- 新华网昆明6月25日电（记者李怀岩、周雷）近日因气温较高，滇池蓝藻大量繁殖，岸边的湖水变得如绿油漆一般，散发出阵阵腥臭味。滇池管理局工作人员25日证实，滇池确实存在蓝藻暴发现象，但在正常范围之内，另外，昆明市民的饮用水安全不会受到影响。 据昆明市滇池管理局宣传教育处介绍，随着气温升高，滇池水体富营养化加重，造成蓝藻的疯长。和以往每年的情况类似，进入5月以后，滇池开始暴发蓝藻。而实际上，因今年雨水较为充足，此次�
- ZT posted on 05/22/2007托尔斯泰对自己的性欲和性满足有着更加强烈的负罪感。然而在这方面，他的自我谴责也是奇怪地有所选择的，甚至是在纵容自己。托尔斯泰认为自已有很强的性欲，他在日记中写道： “必须有一个女人，色欲使我片刻不得安宁。”(1853年5月14日) “可怕的情欲是人体的一种疾病。”(1856年6月6日) 在生命的最后阶段，他告诉自己的传记作者阿尔默·莫德，自己的欲望太强烈了，以至于他不能没有性生活，直到81岁为止。青年时期，与女性交往总让他感到非常羞涩，因此，他常去妓院，但那地方令他厌恶，并给他带来了通常的结果。他写于1847年3月的一则
- zt posted on 05/22/2007A Shining Model of Wealth Without Liberty By James Mann Sunday, May 20, 2007; B01 The Iraq war isn't over, but one thing's already clear: China won. As the United States has been bleeding popularity and influence around the world, China has been gaining both. That's largely because it has been coming into its own as the first full-blown alternative since the end of the Cold War to Washington's model of free markets and democracy. As the U.S. model has become tarnished, China's has gained
- zt posted on 05/17/2007China's new cultural revolution After more than a decade embracing all things western, Chinese consumers are turning more, well ... Chinese. Time to rethink the China strategy? By Sheridan Prasso, Fortune contributing editor May 17 2007: 5:53 AM EDT (Fortune Magazine) -- On a crowded Sunday morning inside the Forbidden City, one of China's best-known TV anchors is warily eyeing a squat, slope-roofed building that for five centuries housed the office of the emperor's physicians. Its thick red pi
- zt posted on 04/30/2007Fluorescent Bulbs Are Known to Zap Domestic Tranquillity Energy-Savers a Turnoff for Wives By Blaine Harden Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 30, 2007; A01 NESKOWIN, Ore. -- Alex and Sara Sifford, who live here on the Oregon coast, want to do the right thing to save a warming world. To that end, Alex Sifford, 51, has been buying compact fluorescent light bulbs, which use about 75 percent less power than incandescent bulbs. He sneaks them into sockets all over the house. This has bee
- zt posted on 04/29/2007The Mind's I The author of "G?del, Escher, Bach" wonders what makes the self. By Reviewed by Peter D. Kramer Sunday, April 29, 2007; BW04 I AM A STRANGE LOOP By Douglas Hofstadter Basic. 412 pp. $26.95 Okay, I think, therefore I am. But who gets to play that game? A newborn? A mosquito? A computer? If my thoughts are elsewhere, am I here or there? When I no longer think as I once did, am I the same person? What composes this "I," molecules or memories? Questions about the boundari
- zt posted on 04/28/2007Illiteracy Jumps in China, Despite 50-Year Campaign to Eradicate It By Maureen Fan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, April 27, 2007; A19 LIUPU, China -- Last year, finally, everyone in Liupu village was able to read and write 1,500 Chinese characters, a census showed. Village leaders threw a big dinner to celebrate, presenting commemorative teacups to the last two adults to make the grade. But ask Zhao Huapu, the earnest principal of Liupu Shezu Girls School, how many people here can ac
- zt posted on 04/22/2007Revolutionary Thought How "all men were created equal" became "self-evident." Reviewed by Maya Jasanoff Sunday, April 22, 2007; BW09 INVENTING HUMAN RIGHTS A History By Lynn Hunt Norton. 272 pp. $25.95 A few Sundays ago, Britain marked the anniversary of the day, in 1807, when Parliament abolished the transatlantic slave trade, ending a commerce that had transported millions of Africans across the ocean, chained down in the vile holds of British ships. The bicentennial is being o
- zt posted on 04/16/2007Among Taxpayers, Inequality May Equal Cheating By Shankar Vedantam Monday, April 16, 2007; A03 Economists have long known there are two reasons that people cheat on their taxes. One is that they are poor and need the extra cash so badly they are willing to risk getting caught. The other is that they are rich and have lots of "non-matchable" income -- mostly investment income not directly reported to the government -- which makes it less likely they will be caught. Taxpayers in the middle class
- zt posted on 04/14/2007Man Jumps From Empire State Building Updated 5:01 PM ET April 13, 2007 NEW YORK (AP) - A man jumped to his death Friday out the window of a 69th-floor law office in the Empire State Building. Police responded to the New York City landmark shortly before 3 p.m. after a 911 caller reported seeing a severed leg _ covered in a gray sock _ on the street below. The rest of the body was recovered from a setback on the 30th floor. The tragedy in the 102-story building closed portions of the busy Midt
- zt posted on 04/12/2007Kaine Vetoes Bill To Study Castration By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 11, 2007; B01 RICHMOND, April 10 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have required state agencies to study whether Virginia should start castrating violent sex offenders instead of confining them, some for the rest of their lives. The General Assembly, hoping to reduce the costs of housing the state's most dangerous sex offenders in prison or treatment facilities, overwhelm
- zt posted on 04/01/2007Corruption Case Breaks 'Shanghai Taboo' Fall of City Leader Reflects Chinese President's Drive to Cement His Power, Vision By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 1, 2007; A20 SHANGHAI -- Long a proud showcase for economic development, Shanghai has recently become the stage for a high-stakes drama of corruption, vice and political intrigue with far-reaching consequences for the Chinese Communist Party. The scandal, which has brought down one of China's senior leaders
- zt posted on 03/23/2007倒苦水之前，建议先看看。 "The First Emperor" (#103) In one of the Metropolitan Opera's most elaborate productions since "War and Peace," composer Tan Dun ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and "Symphony 1997: Heaven Earth Mankind") creates an epic new opera set in the ancient court of Qin Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor of China. Placido Domingo sings the title role as the Emperor who unites China and builds the Great Wall. Paul Groves is Gao Jianli, the court composer who defies him and seduces Yu
- zt posted on 03/22/2007男人管理好N个女人的方式方法 我有个老同学，一个人娶了两个老婆，一中一外。这件事情在纽约的华人里面非常轰动，老同学自己从来不回避，他经常出没各种派对，嘴里叼着雪茄烟，手里拿着香槟说： “我他妈的做个床，能睡三个人的床连他妈美国都没卖的。” 老同学的大老婆是个美国人，在华尔街做事情，而且非常出色；二老婆是上海人，我没见过本人，只看过照片，漂亮、温柔，是典型的上海小姐。大概七年前这两个老婆在同一个冬天，一人给他生了一个闺女。 同时娶好几个老婆的人，我这辈子还认识一位，就是我外�
- zt posted on 03/19/2007SEPTEMBER 2006 Alaa Al Aswany: Voice of Reason Dr. Al Aswany's recent novel has made him a literary superstar, often thronged by admirers as he walks the streets of his native Cairo. Just who is the Arab world listening to? Not only radical sheikhs and militant politicians. The man whose voice has captivated the Arab public is a Cairo dentist by day and a novelist by dawn. Alaa Al Aswany's novel The Yacoubian Building is a phenomenon—the best-selling novel in the Middle East for two
- zt posted on 03/17/2007Is He to Be Guilty, Or Not to Be Guilty? Legal Eagles Flock to the Kennedy Center To Judge Prince Hamlet's State of Mind By Peter Marks Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2007; C01 Poetic justice is not so easily meted out, as a distinguished gaggle of lawyers and psychiatrists found out when gathered on Thursday night to consider the sanity of Hamlet. After two hours of mock-trial arguments at the Kennedy Center -- presided over by no less a jurist than Supreme Court Justice
- zt posted on 03/17/2007Chinese Lawmakers Approve Measure to Protect Private Property Rights By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, March 17, 2007; A10 BEIJING, March 16 -- China's legislature passed a controversial law designed to protect private property rights Friday in what legal experts called a milestone on the path toward a market economy. The legislation stopped short of abrogating the principle that all land belongs to the state, a fundamental part of the communist system put in place aft
- zt posted on 03/09/2007China Looks To Protect Private Property By Maureen Fan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 9, 2007; A16 BEIJING, March 8 -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated measure Thursday that is intended to help protect private property in an increasingly well-off society. Although the Communist Party still believes the state owns all land, the growing economy has meant that private property "has been increasing with each passing day," the draft legislation states, adding th
- zt posted on 02/24/2007For Gays in China, 'Fake Marriage' Eases Pressure By Maureen Fan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, February 23, 2007; A12 BEIJING -- It is Saturday afternoon in a half-empty restaurant on the fourth floor of a modern shopping mall. Two young women kiss slowly and continuously, one permed head of hair poised above another, arms entwined, as other customers ignore them completely. This is the weekly gathering of Tongyu, a lesbian group that meets publicly to socialize, watch gay movies
- ZT posted on 02/23/2007http://www.backchina.com/newspage/2007/02/22/116422.shtml 剧情简介: 获得戛纳国际电影节评审团大奖、普通评审团特别关注奖。 大师级画家以妻子为模特儿的不朽杰作，早在十年前半途而途，然而一位晚辈带著漂亮的女友到访，却激起这位六十岁大师枯竭的灵感，并决定以她作模特儿，再次执起画笔，续写不朽杰作。画室之外，大画家发妻和美女男友的妒火越烧越烈；画室之内，年轻美女跟大画家的配合却如鱼得水，两个空间形成强烈对比，把四人的生命彻底改变。
- zt posted on 02/16/2007Chinese Sculptor Picked to Carve Image For King Memorial By Brett Zongker Associated Press Friday, February 16, 2007; C07 A master sculptor from China was chosen yesterday to carve the image of Martin Luther King Jr. for a memorial to the slain civil rights leader to be built on the Mall. Lei Yixin, one of nine sculptors considered national treasures in China, will carve King's likeness in the memorial's 28-foot granite "Stone of Hope," officials said. The sculpture, depicting a determ
- zt posted on 02/14/2007Adding Up the Reasons For Expensive Health Care By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, February 14, 2007; D01 It's hardly an original point, but now that health-care reform is back on the political agenda, it's worth emphasizing: The reason the system has been so resistant to change is that lots of powerful interests do very nicely with things just the way they are. Or, put another way: Although doctors, hospitals, insurers and drug companies say they, too, want things to change, any comprehensive re
- zt posted on 02/09/2007Poll Finds Surge of Religion Among Chinese By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, February 8, 2007; A15 BEIJING, Feb. 7 -- A new government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China has found that the number of religious believers among the country's 1.3 billion people is far higher than generally known, amounting to as many as 300 million. The findings, based on a poll of 4,500 people conducted by professors at East China Normal University in Shanghai, supported growing in
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