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...Wanted: Eureka Moments The key to the government's grand plans is fostering innovation. Though its companies and research centers have been adept in past decades at advancing manufacturing systems and paying catch-up with the West, they haven't proven as capable of breaking new ground. To remain competitive, Taiwan has to develop its own technology, not just manufacture technology products...
...There are moves afoot to bring about this crucial change. Taiwan's vaunted Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a state-funded think tank housed on a landscaped campus near Hsinchu, produced many critical breakthroughs since its founding in 1973. But ITRI's future may lie within the center's Creativity Lab. At its entryway is a collection of odd video games developed at the lab, including one that allows visitors to interact with a digitally generated infant. Inside, researchers dress in blue jeans and polo shirts instead of the usual white coats, and converse in a room with movable walls...
Those seeking to pay the bills through full-time journalism could find different paymasters. The Associated Press recently started taking investigative reports from four nonprofit journalism groups. And if newspapers can't afford investigations, advocacy groups and think tanks - which already hire research pros - could do their own: a kind of piecemeal return to the old partisan press...
...which seven Big Tobacco CEOs famously swore they didn't think nicotine was addictive, the 18-term California Democrat recounts three decades of slugfests over public health. Waxman's legislative trophy case--bolstered by numerous bipartisan victories--is impressive. Among the highlights are battles to secure funding for HIV/AIDS research at a time when at least one colleague still favored quarantining the nation's gay men on a remote island; passing toxic-pollutants regulation in the wake of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India; and slapping nutritional labels on packaged food despite protests from lobbyists. Though brimming with...
...press conference, Healy announced that the City has asked Robert Wasserman, a national expert on police strategy, diversity, and management, and Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, to chair a committee "to facilitate an analysis and develop recommendations" from the incident. Healy said that the committee's mission is "larger than a mere investigation into the events of July 16," and that it will examine the police department's organization, policies, and relationships with the local community...