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SHANGHAI: Crash Zone Drivers who hoped the new inner-city elevated beltway around Shanghai would relieve the city's nightmarish traffic congestion are anything but relieved. Since its opening on Nov. 6, the 48-km, four-lane ring road has become a four-ring circus of chills and spills. Vehicles...
His lesser-known musical talents include singing and the ability to whistle one melodic line, hum another, and (sometimes) play a piano score at the same time.. a veritable one-man trio. "I didn't learn to whistle until about six years ago," he remembers. "Once I learned how...
Why? Well, I think job searching is a part of it; in the past three years, many are the newspaper internship posters I have seen that say "minorities especially encouraged to apply" or "this program open to minorities only." This phenomenon has become relatively common. Think that the furor over...
My roommates are the skeptical sort who have developed, over the past two-and-a-half years, a healthy disrespect for Ivy League men's basketball. Accustomed by years of sports watching to wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am NBA dunks and other SportsCenter highlights, they scoff at the idea...
Serra, a highly confident technocrat who oversaw the NAFTA negotiations for Mexico, had misjudged the importance of hand holding in the world of high finance, especially when the hands control your country's fate. Money managers in the U.S. were stunned. During the Salinas era they had grown accustomed to...