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...including Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, had to suffer through a condescending lecture, replete with PowerPoint presentation, from China's Vice Premier Wu Yi. One of the country's top bureaucrats and a woman with a vaunted reputation as a problem solver, Wu enlightened the Americans with a lesson on the 5,000-year history of China. Her essential point: those who criticized China's economic policy did so out of ignorance. "We have had the genuine feeling," said Wu, "that some American friends not only have limited knowledge of, but harbor much misunderstanding about, the reality in China...
...Unless they continue to push reform throughout the economy-especially in a financial sector dominated by bloated state-owned banks that lend lavishly to uncompetitive state enterprises-the cost of dealing with the problem later will balloon. (And the argument is fair enough: it's a lesson the Japanese learned in the 1990s when Tokyo dragged its feet on banking reform...
...advertising campaigns. In Manchester, Michael Brunton visits the Babylab, a research facility in England whose sole mission is to understand how babies' brains develop. TIME's talented graphics director, Jackson Dykman, managed to squeeze more than 7,000 years of fascination with the brain into a lively history lesson. Still haven't had enough? Jeremy Caplan invites you to play a few mind games to figure out why your brain can sometimes play tricks on you. All of this was pulled together under the capable direction of Philip Elmer-DeWitt, TIME's science editor...
...relationship, the couple could learn from American political pugilists James Carville and Mary Matalin, who keep things interesting at home by earning their keep doing battle for opposite sides. Perhaps Hollande ought to be advising Royal's probable conservative foe, Nicolas Sarkozy? And there's got to be a lesson somewhere in all of this for Hillary Clinton...
That playing field can change again, and probably will. On 24, there are a few very good people, a few very bad ones and in between, a lot of question marks who can upend the plot (and the political analogies). That may be the biggest lesson of 24 in the Iraq era: don't stubbornly hang on to your preconceptions when the facts on the ground change. Undoubtedly, Bauer will continue to give liberals and libertarians conniptions before his latest day is over. But if conservatives and neocons think 24 is working for them, they don't know Jack...