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- zt posted on 05/21/2007A 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 04/27/2007Illiteracy 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 04/13/2007Man 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 04/11/2007Kaine 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 03/23/2007ˮ֮ǰȿ "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
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- zt posted on 03/18/2007SEPTEMBER 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 phenomenonthe 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 02/23/2007For 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
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- 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 02/08/2007Poll 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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- zt posted on 10/28/2006Updated 8:04 AM ET October 28, 2006 The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow. Khalid Adem, a 30-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old
- zt posted on 10/26/2006Yiyun Li Among Whiting Prize Winners By HILLEL ITALIE The Associated Press Wednesday, October 25, 2006; 10:21 PM NEW YORK -- Yiyun Li, a Chinese fiction writer who has struggled to remain in the United States even as her work continues to receive acclaim, was among the winners announced Wednesday of the 22nd annual Whiting Writers' Awards, $40,000 prizes given to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise." Other winners included Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui, Irish author Patrick O
- zt posted on 10/26/2006Atheist Evangelist In His Bully Pulpit, Sam Harris Devoutly Believes That Religion Is the Root of All Evil By David Segal Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 26, 2006; C01 NEW YORK There are really just two possibilities for Sam Harris. Either he is right and millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews are wrong. Or Sam Harris is wrong and he is so going to hell. This seems obvious whenever Harris opens what he calls "my big mouth," and it is glaringly clear one recent evening at t
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- ZT posted on 08/30/2006Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz dies By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt - Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94. Mahfouz, who was accused of blasphemy by an Islamic militant and survived a stabbing attack 12 years ago, was admitted to the hospital last month after falling in his home an
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