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...Japan learned a similar lesson during the economy's Lost Decade after a stocks-and-real-estate bubble burst in the early 1990s. In a pathetic attempt to avoid losses, Japanese banks kept pumping fresh funds into debt-ridden, unprofitable firms to keep them afloat. These companies came to be known as zombie firms - they appeared to be living but were actually dead, too burdened by debt to do much more than live off further handouts. One economist called Japan a "loser's paradise." The classic zombie was retail chain Daiei, which limped along for years, crushed by debt...
Shrek, the new Broadway musical based on the 2001 movie hit, is DreamWorks' first attempt to capture a share of the riches that Disney has amassed by turning its animated musicals into Broadway blockbusters. And on paper it's a no-brainer. The movie, based on William Steig's children's stories about a softhearted ogre, was one of the most charming of the new wave of cartoons for the whole family launched in 1989 by Disney's The Little Mermaid. With its fart jokes and self-parodying humor, Shrek was hipper and funnier than the more earnest and straightforward...
...appendage state will see photography extended into an all-day strategy, including images that are made according to involuntary stimuli such as brain waves and blood pressure. The camera will also be circulating within our bodies and stationed in our homes, acting proactively to warn us of and possibly attempt to correct any problems (disease, fire, an accident), even on the molecular level...
Michael Scherer's review of Mike Huckabee's new book, Do The Right Thing, is an attempt to trivialize the mission of an extraordinary public citizen [Dec. 15]. Instead of noting that TIME once listed him as one of America's five best governors, Scherer identified Huckabee as a "Baptist pastor with crooked teeth," and "Huckabee's America" sounds like something from The Beverly Hillbillies. Those who dismissed Huckabee as a third-tier candidate when he continually argued for energy independence, infrastructure spending and better preventive health care should take a closer look at Barack Obama's priorities. Huckabee...
...bubbled through the commentary pages of Chinese newspapers over the nature of "universal values." Opinion writers have argued whether pluralism is a western creation with limited application to China, or a political ideal for all nations. Columnist Sima Nan wrote on his blog that the charter was a dangerous attempt to promote a Chinese "color revolution," referring to pro-democracy movements in Ukraine and Georgia...