January 13, 2006 Trade surplus triples for China - by Nerys Avery, Bloomberg News (read this story) US envoy in China as rumours on N.Korea's Kim swirl - by Chris Buckley and Jon Herskovitz (read this story) CHALLENGES 2005-2006: Nuclear Clouds Gather Over Asia - Analysis by Praful Bidwai With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
The two guys in San Francisco’s Two Gallants wish they were born in a different era. Their hardscrabble gold-rush folk-blues is about doing time for shooting guys on county lines, not updating MySpace profiles with digital pics from last night’s party.
Stage listings are compiled by Deborah Giattina. Performance times may change; call venues to confirm. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Rita Felciano, Karen McKevitt, and Lara Shalson. See Picks for information on how to submit items to the listings.
Art listings are compiled by Duncan Scott Davidson. Because of space limitations, new art shows are listed the week they open (thereafter, shows are listed on a rotating basis). For information on how to submit listings to this section, see Picks. For complete listings, go to www.sfbg.com.
Student Standouts, Class Notes Students of the Month honored Students of the month of September have been announced from local high schools and honored by chambers of commerce.
An international team of astronomers based at Yale and Leiden University in The Netherlands found that "old stars" dominated many large galaxies in the early universe, raising the new question of why these galaxies progressed into "adulthood" so early in the life of the universe. Their results imply that the galaxies have a method of "birth control" that is very effective.
