Art for the sake of the market
Demand for modern Chinese art may be exploding and the prices it is selling for reaching new heights, but the quality of the art work is raising eyebrows
In an upmarket gallery near Hollywood Road in Hong Kong, a middle-aged Swiss woman unfurls a crumpled piece of paper from her handbag and squints at the unfamiliar words written down.
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The US embargo turned Cuba into a Harley museum
Unable to get original parts because of a 45-year-old US embargo, Cuban Harley-Davidson aficionados have resorted to ingenuity and Soviet truck parts to keep the decades-old US classics on Cuban roads.
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Vista improves on security, reliability, usability
The downside: Full versions of the new operating system start at US$199 and have heavy hardware requirements
Over the past five years, Microsoft Corp promised its most advanced operating system ever and then yanked key features to meet deadlines that were then missed anyway. Details of what would later be known as Windows Vista sounded suspiciously like Apple's Mac OS X.
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