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Hooman Majd on the duality of orthodoxy.

Hooman Majd on Iran’s potential to go nuclear.

The writer says a behind-the-scenes war with Iran is unlikely, though a high degree of espionage is not.

The writer describes Iran’s relations with Syria, Egypt, and Iraq.

The writer explains Iran’s long-time support for Hamas and Hezbollah.

The writer disabuses us of a few misconceptions surrounding a shrewd president with strong support in the Arab world.

After translating for former Iranian President Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s people shoehorned the writer in as interpreter at the UN.

Hooman Majd on the upcoming Iranian election.

Hooman Majd reveals some facts about the Islamic republic that could surprise Americans.

Dickson Despommier explains that vertical farming would constitute a closed cycle, thus solving many of the water and waste related challenges of modern agricultural methods.

Technologies used by arid countries could be used in space, says Dickson Despommier.

Chinese capital markets are about as developed as Wall Street was when Jack Perkowski started there in 1973.

Thanks to the Olympics, Chinese manufacturers are more attuned to creating environmentally-friendly cars than their foreign counterparts.

The major tenets of Jack Perkowski’s company have been in place since day one.

Perkowski sees newcomer American companies all making the same mistakes in China.

As was once the case in the U.S., becoming big in China will soon mean becoming big on the global scale.

If you see diesel truck on the road in China, it most likely came from Perkowski’s company.

Despite Beijing’s apparent officiousness, control of China is not centralized.

“A billion people in China wake up everyday trying to make everything they use cheaper and more convenient” thus prices fall all over the world, according to Jack Perkowski.

This is China’s 30th year of reform. There are visible signs of wealth all over the country. Everyone is feeling optimistic. Everyone is focusing on education.

“Everybody in China is actually from Missouri,” says Jack Perkowski. They are hard workers; they are skeptical of optimistic outsiders, but they respect success.

“Mr China” explains how things are never what they seem in Chinese business.

In the beginning, Perkowski found “New China Managers.” Now he has the luxury of pulling from his own pool of talented employees.

From his perch on Wall Street, Jack Perkowski foresaw the emergence of long-term trends that drew him to China. Now others try to follow his example.

The painter sees a wealth of art, but Sugimoto and the German school of photography really stand out.

The painter compares the art world, then and now.

Remaining distanced from the profit motive should help artists make it through the recession, says the painter.

Ross Bleckner on unleashing your inner artist.

The painter reads obituaries to remind him of the purpose of life.

The painter talks about the meditative aspects of sweeping his studio floor.