In making its new 787 Dreamliner, Boeing outsourced work to a global network of more than 50 partners, a marked contrast to the traditional practice of manufacturing planes at its base near Seattle, Washington. The plane is nearly three years behind schedule, beset by technical and supply problems...
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Air pollution has long been listed as a health hazard, causing respiratory problems and reducing life expectancy. New research also points to harm for the brain and cognition skills, especially among the elderly. The Chinese research study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Those who oppose globalization are especially sensitive about loss of culture. But the American film industry does not contribute to the homogenization or Americanization of culture, argues Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. “Instead of creating a single, boring global...
Wall Street Journal: Is globalization making the world more homogenous? And if so, does Hollywood share the blame?
This summer, my studio’s “Spider-Man 3” became one of the biggest movies of all time, thanks to its world-wide “web” of box-...
Since building the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao has witnessed extraordinary growth in tourism. Now, many policy makers see Bilbao and the Guggenheim as a model for urban renewal. But not all are in agreement.
Tourism is an uncertain industry, and museums are attractive as long as they are unique....
Guggenheim Bilbao
They call it the "Guggenheim effect": the power of a well known brand and spectacular architecture to give a moribund city such as Bilbao a new lease of life.
Bilbao's economic renaissance, following the opening...
North Korea, intent on developing its nuclear weapons program, has conducted at least six increasingly advanced missile tests this year. The nation is a threat and could attack South Korea, Japan, US naval bases in the Pacific or even the US mainland in the not-so-distant future. Tackling this...
Can they find a way? US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping; North Korean nuclear-capable missile tests
BEIJING: With the threat from North Korea’s nuclear breakout growing daily, repair of Sino-US relations has...
Middle-class families increasingly depend on domestic help for cooking and cleaning services, eldercare and childcare. Almost 70 million domestic workers, most women, toil around the globe. The global supply of labor for work deemed unskilled is huge. Wages are low, and private homes are the...
Maid to work: A foreign domestic helper multi-tasks in Singapore, and domestic workers in Hong Kong protest work conditions and regulations that favor employers over workers
NEW HAVEN: The 67 million domestic workers worldwide are the unsung...
The big fridge, product of 1950’s and 60’s American suburbia, has made its way across the pond. British sales of the larger, American refrigerators are booming, specifically in the double-door variety which now constitutes 8% of the growth of the British cooling business. Increased popularity of...
Hand in hand with the arrival in Britain of supersize containers of food and drink has come ... the Big American Fridge. Last year, John Lewis alone sold £2m of them.
As these gargantuan cold-storage systems...
The 'pan-blue' political camp in Taiwan has traditionally been Beijing's best line of defense against those who want full separation from China, as pan-blue members aim for maintaining the status quo separation of Taiwan and China with an eye to eventual unification. The 'pan-...
HONG KONG - China's last line of defence in Taiwan against the onslaught of separatist forces is in danger of crumbling.
This follows a surprise announcement by the opposition parties in the so-called 'pan-...
