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...Center, Yale Law School Legal reform in China is crucial to many aspects of China's development?advancing a market economy, protecting human rights, fighting corruption, encouraging foreign investment, and fully integrating China into the world community. People outside of China, as well as inside of China, have a stake in these things. So it would be valuable for President Bush to emphasize the importance of the rule of law when he meets President...
...homes to the city of Arlington, blocking the Cowboys' bid to build the stadium on their land. If the bill becomes law, those homeowners may be forced to leave, suggesting that the property-rights movement is alive and well in Texas--so long as football revenues aren't at stake. Says Glen Heath, 84, who has lived in his Arlington home since 1949 and may now have to vacate: "I was a big Cowboys fan before. I don't think I'll go out of my way to watch them now." --By Adam Pitluk/Dallas
...book raises higher expectations than the straightforwardly commercial Memoirs. Berger has qualities that Saint as yet lacks, including a distinctive prose style and a disciplined, selective eye. His antihero Wagner, seeking somebody else's faith to validate his existence, at least conveys a sense that something more is at stake than a big movie sale. Saint's Halloway remains a see-through personality, dismissed even by his yuppie former friends as "never much on belief of any sort." With him and his adventures, as he himself says, what you see is what...
...zone. This lets them do an end run around the mobile network. The lines between Internet service and phone service are blurring, and just as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has shaken up the fixed-line phone business, it is now poised to disrupt the mobile business. At stake is a slice of the $550 billion in voice revenue that London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says mobile operators will generate in 2010. The revelation in August that Google will begin providing free voice transmissions over computers, and Microsoft's announced acquisition last week of the VoIP start-up Teleo...
...that one third of the 300 million young men in China will die prematurely of smoking-related ailments. Any measures to dissuade the estimated five million Chinese minors who start smoking each year thus comes as welcome news to health advocates. Less so for the tobacco companies hoping to stake a claim in the world's largest market...