Dear Colleagues, The Economist has a short article on the ILC. You can read it online at: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8810981 Norman Graf P.S. Those of you who attended the Beijing meeting might be interested in the following article in Science, titled "China Supersizes Its Science": http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1354