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The RIAA cannot send these letters—which give the recipient 20 days to try to settle out of court—directly to the students because they can only gain access to the particular IP address downloading the copyrighted material, and not the student’s name...
But there are risks for both East and West as the strands of the global economy intertwine. As the world economy interconnects, the U.S., China and India become more vulnerable to local disruptions in each other's economies. A U.S. recession could force Chinese factories to shut down or lay...
These efforts, however satisfying in the short term, tend to backfire. Technology makes it more difficult to engage in protectionism anyway: it is easier to turn back ships pulling into American ports with goods made in overseas factories than it is to regulate-or even measure-what kind of overseas...
Of course slowing down trade requires only collective will, not regulations. What if buyers decided to resist the siren song of low prices emanating from the nearest Wal-Mart and buy instead from mom-and-pop stores stocked with higher-priced, locally made goods? Globalization would decelerate. Offshoring could be...
Education officials acknowledge that quality, and not just numbers, is an issue. The élite who make it into university find that their centrally controlled curriculum is steeped in "Ho Chi Minh Thought," with the level of courses - from law to engineering to computer science - mediocre. Professors' pay and promotion...