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...with strip malls and industrial parks. At the end of the book I drop one last interesting fact: Every four days there's a million more people on the planet. That's difficult math when you think how we've already stretched everything to the edges of our resource base...
...Hong Kong stock exchange," that would allow individual Chinese to buy stock in Hong Kong for the first time. The city is a natural platform for Chinese investment, says Saskia Sassen, a Columbia University professor and a leading expert on global financial networks. "On one hand, Hong Kong's base is China," she says. "On the other, it's part of the global economy." Sassen recently ranked 50 cities based on their suitability as global financial hubs. Hong Kong rated fifth, just after Chicago, but before any Asian city other than Tokyo...
Many voters first met Huckabee through the campaign spot in which he traded lines with action star Norris. The ad did more than defuse the humorless-preacher stereotype; it also spoke to Huckabee's base. To a general audience, Norris is a camp figure. But, notes Daniel Radosh, author of the forthcoming book Rapture Ready!, about Christian pop culture, Evangelicals know Norris as the author of a popular spiritual memoir and co-author of two Christian western novels. To the public, appearing with Norris says Huckabee doesn't take himself too seriously. But, Radosh adds, "within the Christian culture bubble...
...cultural divide shows, too, between Huckabee's base voters and the evangelical leaders who endorsed other GOP candidates. Adam Smith, editorial director of Relevant, a magazine for young Christians, says Huckabee's engagement with the pop world speaks to younger Evangelicals. "Most of our readers don't really see a demarcation between mainstream culture and 'church culture,'" he says...
...Fisher and her colleagues have conducted recent fMRI scans of people who are not just in love but newly in love and have found that their ventral tegmental areas are working particularly hard. "This little factory near the base of the brain is sending dopamine to higher regions," she says. "It creates craving, motivation, goal-oriented behavior-and ecstasy...