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...Shenzhen's manufacturers are facing many of the same problems that bedevil South Korea and Taiwan, where makers of low-end products, beset by competition and eroding margins, have in recent years been trying to make the transition to more sophisticated products. Shenzhen is trying to jump-start that transition by removing obstacles facing inventive startups. Six years ago, Xian-Ping Lu left his job as director of research at an R&D center for a pharmaceutical firm in the U.S. and, with other researchers, planned to set up their own company in China. Although they considered cities like Shanghai...
...revenue from a climbing tax could be used to jump-start truly innovative research into hybrid motors, solar power, and other alternatives to a hydrocarbon-based energy supply that has muddied U.S. economic, environmental, and foreign policies. Funding for public transportation could be increased, and fares on buses, subways, and trains reduced. Furthermore, higher gasoline prices would provide a strong inducement for private firms to devise their own gasoline alternatives independent of federal funding...
During her surprise trip to Baghdad Sunday to help jump-start the faltering formation of a credible Iraqi "national unity" government, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made little secret of Washington's preference for the position of prime minister. When Rice and her traveling partner, British foreign minister Jack Straw, met with acting Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, whom the U.S. and Great Britain have quietly been lobbying against, the tone was undeniably frosty. At one point during the day, Rice took a thinly veiled swipe at Jaafari, remarking that a future prime minister ?has to be able to form...
...were a little slow. It’s Division I basketball–people are going to hit shots if you leave them open.” Senior co-captain Maureen McCaffery hit a three-pointer with 6:48 left in the half to stop the bleeding and jump-start Harvard’s own scoring run. The Crimson scored seven unanswered over the next two-and-a-half minutes, narrowing Princeton’s lead to 30-14. This sharp-shooting stretch helped Harvard recover to shoot 35 percent for the half. Freshman Emily Tay came off the bench...
...auteur Brad Bird has long wanted to direct a noir-style film, possibly based on Will Eisner's comic The Spirit. Meanwhile, creative kingpin John Lasseter, who has a deep affinity for traditional 2-D cel animation, is expected to revive that form in some way. He may even jump-start the long-dormant world-music spin-off of Fantasia, titled Musicana...