Isolate them from the global economy as effectively as we can.Target there military installations with nuclear weapons. Note I did not sayattack them with nuclear weapons. Just target. Pressure them to change theirpolicies concerning repression of dissent in their country. Allow the use ofprivateers to target vessels flying the ChiCom flag without reprisal. Shut downany international air traffic in and out of China. Confiscate all Chineseassets in the US and pressure Europe to do the same. If they want to try andmess with our high tech infrastructure we should feel free to mess with themeconomically also.If a bully pushes you on the play ground the worst thing you can do is ignorethem. Push back. Hell break their nose. Bullies are only emboldened byinaction. .

Golf Galaxy to further regional expansion with Towson store

New women's pro soccer league lines up investors [Sacramento] There's some new star power at Nike [Portland] California company closes design center in Portland [Portland] Callaway Golf signs license to make St. Andrews Links products [Los Angeles] Siwak, Bader sell health-care business [St. Louis] .

LeBron isn't a sure thing for MVP

He leads the NBA in scoring and, more importantly, in fourth-quarter scoring. He's averaging career highs in assists, rebounds and field goal percentage.

So this very well could be the year that James gets his first Most Valuable Player Award, right? After all, no one can compete with his stats and his profile has never been higher.

Circus denies its use of animals is ‘cruel’

Appeals have appeared on blogging websites asking people to complain to Brent Cross and boycott the circus, because of the use of horses and budgies in the acts.

Lengthy celebration for Marley in Trench Town

Damian and Stephen Marley perform together at Original Dancehall Jam Jam, held at the Jamalco Sports Club, May Pen, Clarendon, recently. They performed alongside Bunny Wailer on Friday night at the Marley Festival in Trench Town, St Andrew. - File

Friday's final night of the annual Bob Marley celebrations in Trench Town, St Andrew, was a combination of a long community showcase and a short professional concert - which was about appropriate for the $500 entrance fee.

Not that a bumper crowd came through the coconut bough covered gate into the Vin Lawrence Park off Spanish Town Road. And after Stephen and Damian Marley said goodbye at 5:45 a.m., there was a rush for the exit, only a few turning back when someone on the stage announced that Sugar Minott and Horace Andy were about to perform, while Capleton, I-Wayne and Jah Cure were on their way.

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I did some of the links outside but the road in front of the hotel was rather busy and there was a very noisy bar a few doors away. In the end, I had to do resort to sitting with my microphone under the duvet to get rid of the echo! Obviously it was rather dark under there, so I had to attach a torch to my head in order to read my script. And with the temperature and humidity already uncomfortably high, I can tell you that it was far from pleasant! In fact, I could only manage one link at a time before coming up for air and water! What a glamorous life us reporters lead! I mentioned the other day that you can't even get away from the World Cup when you're travelling between cities on German trains. Well, it's the same on Berlin's underground system. The windows in some carriages have come out in a nasty football type rash.

the has-been

Flyer and Fryer is another candidacy built on confusion – two appealing ornithological concepts ill-suited to this particular species. If Corn and Copia sounds like a Bushism, Flyer and Fryer sounds like the Bush Doctrine. Maureen Dowd is drooling at the chance to write up the father-son symbolism of a Flyer and Fryer win, as World War II flying ace Bush 41 sups with third-degree-electoral-burn-victim Bush 43.

Judging from the few open threads on the issue, the White House would have been better off entering the joke President Bush makes every year about the closeness of the race: Neck and Neck. If voters could write in, their choices would probably be None and Of the Above. MousePlanet shows the deep, unmet desire for Food nominees: Get In and My Belly, Lunch and Dinner, White Meat and Dark Meat.

Teen cyclist hit by bus had big dreams

Austin Miller's family gathered around a computer to watch one of the early works of the budding 15 year old filmmaker. "He wrote it, shot it, directed it, did all the editing," said his mother, Stephanie Miller. "He was unbelievably creative."