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It's amazing how people attempt to sprinkle pejoratives into thier arguments like "slave labour" in a thinly veiled attempt to garner simpathy for their arguments by tapping into latent (or not so latent) racist sentiments.

Simply put, like the "japanese" car invasion of the seventies and eighties, the so called "first-world" is going through another "IT" invasion, this time from China and India... This time the US companies are trying a different strategy before they get pummeled (e.g. this is like AMC moving a car plant to Japan). I have no idea if this strategy will work for IBM and other IT companies, but I'm sure they are aware of what happened with the car company strategy (e.g., the K-car).

This is NOT south africa aparthid. This is NOT indonesia nike shoes. This is NOT feeding off the weak, this is a real shift in the industry not unlike shifts that have happened in the past (and will in the future).

In the narrow limited minds of Detroit in the 70's and 80's, there were often racist actions against anyone with "dark" colored skin (e.g., the horrible beating of Vincent Chin, who wasn't even japanese) as the industry shift occurs by people who enjoyed using pejoratives to garner simpathy for their arguments... I hope you aren't aligning yourself with people that have that kind of mindset...

In this case, you probably mean the woman who never was

The moral of that story is that you can be sloppy with data, or you can be Chinese, but you can't be both at once.

The funny thing about this case was that, once the truth came out in late 1999, Bill Richardson (then Secretary of Energy) required mandatory racial sensitivity training for all workers at DOE labs.

This was both stupid and insulting. After all, it was people like Bill Richardson and his investigators who did the racial profiling here, not the scientists in the labs!

So let's see... I love ice hockey. My favorite team is the New York Islanders. There probably won't be a hockey season this year because of the lockout. That was bad enough. Now this.

What does that have to do with this story? Simple. Sanjay Kumar is co-ownewr of the New York Islanders. The other co-owner (Charles Wang) used to be CEO at CA, but resigned a year before these alleged crimes were committed. Kumar will probably have to sell his share of the team, but who wants it? The NHL is in the midst of a league-widr player lockout, and the value of a franchise in the NHL is very much in doubt these days.

Elton John helps raise money for Gore
Flamboyant rock star Elton John, making his first foray into American politics after three decades of performing in the United States, endorsed Vice President Al Gore at a ritzy Silicon Valley fund-raiser... The fund-raiser, at the home of Novell Corp. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, raised $3.25 million for the Democratic National Committee.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/20/ campaign.gore.john.reut/

Buddhist Nuns Admit Destroying Documents
Two Buddhist nuns who helped coordinate an April 1996 temple fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore admitted today they destroyed a list of donors and other documents because they thought the information would embarrass the temple... Gore's appearance at the fund-raiser has proven a major embarrassment for the vice president, but he also faces new Justice Department scrutiny on another front: his 46 fund-raising calls from the White House.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/04/thompson /hearings.main/

Buddhist nuns indicted for failure to testify in trial of Democratic fund-raiser
Two Buddhist nuns were indicted Wednesday on contempt of court charges for failing to appear as witnesses in the trial of Maria Hsia, who was convicted in March of campaign law violations in connection with a 1996 Democratic fund-raising event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in California
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/05/ nuns.cnn/

Hsia Convicted in Campaign Finance Scandal
The jury convicted Hsia, a friend and political supporter of Vice President Al Gore, for arranging more than $100,000 in illegal donations during the 1996 presidential campaign.
http://www.asianweek.com/2000_03_09/news_hsia_fina nce.html

Clinton's greatest peril isn't Monica
James Riady and his Lippo Group latched on to a young Bill Clinton and constructed a web of Asian influence that funneled millions of dollars into various Clinton campaigns and causes (such as silencing Webster Hubbell). For this, Riady enjoyed not only access to Clinton, but Riady's chief stooge, John Huang, got top-secret security clearance and continued to see classified information even after he became a big fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee...

"Three remarkable women,'' as the authors describe them -- Democratic Party activist Maria Hsia, Pauline Kanchanalak of Thailand and Hong Kong billionaire Nina Wang -- all have money ties to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and all have connections to Chinese intelligence or the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

"Beijing did not hesitate to exploit this connection, even face-to-face with Bill Clinton,'' the authors say. Hsia is a known agent for the Chinese government who has been indicted for immigration and campaign-fund-raising scams and, say the authors, probably helped Chinese spies enter the United States.

Kanchanalak, who has been indicted on charges of violating election laws, brought leaders of a Thai conglomerate that is in business with Middle East terrorists and with China's biggest arms smugglers to t

Elton John helps raise money for Gore
Flamboyant rock star Elton John, making his first foray into American politics after three decades of performing in the United States, endorsed Vice President Al Gore at a ritzy Silicon Valley fund-raiser... The fund-raiser, at the home of Novell Corp. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, raised $3.25 million for the Democratic National Committee.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/20/ campaign.gore.john.reut/

Buddhist Nuns Admit Destroying Documents
Two Buddhist nuns who helped coordinate an April 1996 temple fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore admitted today they destroyed a list of donors and other documents because they thought the information would embarrass the temple... Gore's appearance at the fund-raiser has proven a major embarrassment for the vice president, but he also faces new Justice Department scrutiny on another front: his 46 fund-raising calls from the White House.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/04/thompson /hearings.main/

Buddhist nuns indicted for failure to testify in trial of Democratic fund-raiser
Two Buddhist nuns were indicted Wednesday on contempt of court charges for failing to appear as witnesses in the trial of Maria Hsia, who was convicted in March of campaign law violations in connection with a 1996 Democratic fund-raising event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in California
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/05/ nuns.cnn/

Hsia Convicted in Campaign Finance Scandal
The jury convicted Hsia, a friend and political supporter of Vice President Al Gore, for arranging more than $100,000 in illegal donations during the 1996 presidential campaign.
http://www.asianweek.com/2000_03_09/news_hsia_fina nce.html

Clinton's greatest peril isn't Monica
James Riady and his Lippo Group latched on to a young Bill Clinton and constructed a web of Asian influence that funneled millions of dollars into various Clinton campaigns and causes (such as silencing Webster Hubbell). For this, Riady enjoyed not only access to Clinton, but Riady's chief stooge, John Huang, got top-secret security clearance and continued to see classified information even after he became a big fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee...

"Three remarkable women,'' as the authors describe them -- Democratic Party activist Maria Hsia, Pauline Kanchanalak of Thailand and Hong Kong billionaire Nina Wang -- all have money ties to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and all have connections to Chinese intelligence or the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

"Beijing did not hesitate to exploit this connection, even face-to-face with Bill Clinton,'' the authors say. Hsia is a known agent for the Chinese government who has been indicted for immigration and campaign-fund-raising scams and, say the authors, probably helped Chinese spies enter the United States.

Kanchanalak, who has been indicted on charges of violating election laws, brought leaders of a Thai conglomerate that is in business with Middle East terrorists and with China's biggest arms smugglers to t

Americans have adopted more than 100,000 South Korean orphans.

The website for the "State Department", notes that Americans adopt about 2000 South Korean orphans per year.

The kindness and compassion of Westerners is far greater than that shown by the Internet-connected Koreans toward Korean orphans. The current rate of adoption of such orphans declined after 1990. This decline is due to the fact that the Koreans (in Internet-connected South Korea) tried to slow down the rate of adoptions. They, and especially the Korean government, were extremely embarrassed by media coverage of the indisputable fact that the Americans show more love and compassion for Korean orphans than the Internet-connected Koreans themselves. The Koreans simply do not care about orphans.

This story seems somewhat confused and contradicts other things I have read on the subject. I am not convinced the actual interpretation of this find is very reliable.

The most modern theories about the origns of humans in north america, prior to this find, as far as I understand them are as follows. The first humans came across the land bridge between alaska and asia during the last ice age, about 17,000 years ago. They were caucasians, closely related to the Jomon, the prehistoric inhabitants of Japan, whose modern couterparts are the Ainu of Hokkaido. They penetrated throughout north and south america in a 1,000 years or so. Later, about 3,000-4,000 years ago, another group crossed the bering strait in boats. These people were closely related to the modern Chinese and Mongolian people and only penetrated north america. Their descendents are principly the Eskimo and Aleut, but some penetrated futher south such as the Navajo. See here for details.

This find seems to just seems to add extra conformation to the above hypothesis. Finding a 13,000 year old skull does not mean that there had to be human in the americas 25,000 years ago. Nor does the skull contradict the theory that the first humans used the land bridge to cross to alaska during the last ice age. The evidence of camps -- man-made tools, a human footprint and huts dating back 25,000 years are totally separate from this and obivously need explaining, but this find has no real bearing on that debate.