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Jeremy Linsanity has been a big problem for Chinese soft power. The most obvious issue is that Mr Lin is an American who is proudly of Taiwanese descent, which would seem to complicate China’s efforts to claim him http://econ.st/xcsshD
EARLY this morning—for viewers in China—the New York Knicks of the new Taiwanese-American hero Jeremy Lin played against the Dallas Mavericks and with them China’s current standard-bearer in the NBA: ...
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This week's KAL's cartoon http://econ.st/yQmGub
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15 shares - Adriana Psicopedagoga, Brett McGuire, David Zolcer, Ewa Grzybek, Hek Waves and 10 more
26 comments - José X. Nonononono, 罗玉明 罗, Rosa Roman, Jiajia Li, Simon Wong and 1 more
The basketball-loving Xi Jinping, China’s vice-president, may know more about America than President Hu Jintao does, but those who hope for bold internal political reform after the changing of the guard in Beijing should brace for disappointment. However warm any personal chemistry with Barack Obama, relations between the two countries are fated to remain wary http://econ.st/xpOjnW
WHEN he wants to relax, the man most likely to be the next leader of China enjoys watching American basketball on television.
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17 comments - Kain ZHU, 罗玉明 罗, Jiajia Li, Simon Wong, Juan Pablo Delgado and 1 more
Kain ZHU - he's China's president, no matter how well he understand about the US. watch out, America.
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In a paper published online on Thursday in Science Translational Medicine, Robert Farra and his colleagues described the first clinical trial of an implanted microchip that delivers medicine. An implanted device would ensure that delinquent patients take their medicine without even realising it http://econ.st/yjVQhS
MOST people like to draw a strict line between man and machine. But these days the human body, if necessary, can be chock full of gadgets.
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6 comments - Marcos Vieira, Omri Pony, Abdullahi Muhd Adam, Deepak Kikeri, and D. Scott McGregor
Marcos Vieira - Que legal. Muita evolução principalmente para os governos que gastam muito com remédios e os pacientes Nao utilizam corretamente. Mesmo assim devemos ter muito cuidado em como será utilizado sem ferir a liberdade individual.
Exports of iPads may, just possibly, be halted from China. Proview Technology, a Chinese firm based in Shenzhen, has for some time claimed that it holds the mainland trademark for “iPad”. A court in Shenzhen has already ruled against Apple on the matter, and another court in Shanghai is due to hear Proview’s challenge on February 22nd. Apple hotly contests the claims made by Proview, and is appealing the ruling and actively contesting other court cases on the matter. Much hangs in the balance http://econ.st/wVdIIK
FEW brands are as loved in China as Apple, and few business leaders worshiped as much as the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s longtime boss.
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15 shares - Adam Baylis-West, Allon Zacay, Dan Vetter, Greg Yanick, Kyle Gottfried and 10 more
4 comments - Narahari Nayak, Brent Tantillo, Stephen Rynas, and James Morgan
Narahari Nayak - Why didn't any other company in Amy other country ever think of getting hold of the iPad name? That's the power of being in China, you never know how they can rewrite history of everything, including the iPad.
"How the zebra got his stripes” sounds like the title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So” stories. Sadly, it isn’t, so the question has, instead, been left to zoologists. But they, too, have let their imaginations rip http://econ.st/wC2eeC
Imagine what it looks like to a fly
“HOW the zebra got his stripes” sounds like the title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So” stories.
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2 comments - Dharmesh Batavia and Michael O'Connor
Daily chart: A brilliant visualisation of how an economist says "I love you" on Valentine's day http://econ.st/Ac8Oj6
MICROECONOMICS is full of tools that help explain human behaviour through competition, incentives and signals.
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7 comments - Jimmy Lavado Arteaga, Andy Koh, Koah kwabena pious, Tommy Chan, Nellie K. Adaba and 1 more
Death affords the opportunity to recognise and preserve the best parts of a life. And Whitney Houston's voice in recordings still sounds like a revelation, a bracing answer to an unspoken question. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that it came from such a complicated place http://econ.st/x7Msnn
IN A summer camp in Maine in 1986, one cassette played in relentless rotation: “Whitney Houston”, the debut of a commanding young diva.
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5 comments - Brent Tantillo, Dennis McCunney, and Kaitlyn Abram
Brent Tantillo - Dennis -- they shouldn't be mutually exclusive -- but they often are. She was a passionate soul and often that passion drives artists like Whitney to live manic lives of great highs and lows. While she was fortunate enough to live 48 years, many others like her, whether Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Gram Parsons, Vincent Van Gogh, or many others die similarly because they drive themselves hard, whether singing or drinking and drugging. That's what makes them legends, for better or worse.
This week's KAL's cartoon http://econ.st/whXYjC
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There is a large body of evidence that shows contraception use has helped women avoid unintended pregnancies, which in turn has led to lower abortion rates, healthier babies, stronger marriages and improved social and economic conditions for women. These are arguments for contraception that may appeal more to a churchgoing conscience http://econ.st/AbzR6Z
THE Obama administration's decision to compel Catholic universities, hospitals and charities to pay for insurance that covers contraception provides a good opportunity to riff off of my colleague's po...
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DL Cummings - http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/Religion-and-Contraceptive-Use.pdf
According to a Guttmacher study, 69% of women utilize sterilization, the pill or an IUD. Add condom use and that goes up to 83%. Of those surveyed, 11% did not use any at all (within one month of the survey).
If a case favoring force is to be made, instead of discussing attitudes or links to effectiveness, it should reflect desire but lack of access to contraceptives. I suspect that number much too low to make a strong argument though.
Expand this comment »According to a Guttmacher study, 69% of women utilize sterilization, the pill or an IUD. Add condom use and that goes up to 83%. Of those surveyed, 11% did not use any at all (within one month of the survey).
If a case favoring force is to be made, instead of discussing attitudes or links to effectiveness, it should reflect desire but lack of access to contraceptives. I suspect that number much too low to make a strong argument though.
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