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...Florida is the pop economist people love to lionizeor hate. Three years ago, the George Mason University professor (then at Carnegie Mellon) wrote a book christening the creative class: an expansive group of architects, engineers, musicians, nurses and even lawyers who drive economic growth in today's knowledge economy. Attract those workers, and companies will follow, argued Florida. Some cities, like Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio, took the theory to heart. In other circles, Florida was written off as a quack. (Consider the subtext: tax breaks to lure business are pass?...
...gatekeepers (Sprint has taken a stand against cell-phone porn, a big business overseas). Meanwhile at least one carrier is already bypassing the small companies for cell-phone services: Verizon is relying on household names like CNN and NBC (for news) and Comedy Central and VH1 (for entertainment) to attract users to its new VCast service...
...more upscale caps and gowns in the 21st. They're still a bargain; a year of tuition and fees at Miami Dade runs about $3,000. But more than a third of the 1,157 community colleges in the U.S. have developed some kind of honors program designed to attract higher-quality students and professors. As cash-strapped states cap enrollment at public universities--despite a rise in the number of 18-year-olds--community- college honors programs offer talented students a respectable place to start their higher education. As a result, the median age of community-college students...
...Extreme poverty is so tragic. Sudden natural disasters like a tsunami mobilize a large number of people and money for a short period of time, while the slow but massive wave of poverty and death in Africa doesn't attract the world's attention in the same way. When we try to help those affected by disasters and extreme poverty, however, we shouldn't focus on the overwhelming number of the dead but simply try to do something good for others. Tadashi Kawabe Fukuoka City, Japan...
Though tradition has it that certain belly-dance moves evolved from female fertility rituals, the workout version has even begun to attract some men. Tomas Villalobos, a substitute teacher from Escondido, Calif., who suffers from chronic back pain, decided to join his wife's class after noticing that belly dancers had strong, flexible backs. Now a regular, Villalobos says, "Not only has my pain decreased, but my flexibility and muscle strength have increased greatly...