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...other guys. In many ways, his existence is like that of any first-year student at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Yet when Schoch walks to class each morning it is not along the blustery shores of Lake Michigan but through the bustling streets of Barcelona, past Antonio Gaudi's Casa Batllo, to a century-old art-nouveau office building that bears the University of Chicago's red-and-white logo above its filigreed iron balconies...
...primary residence is Prague, he manages some 300 employees across the Czech and Slovak republics for GTS, a firm based in London with offices in the U.S., and operates the largest fiber-optic network in Europe. But for 13 one-week stays over two years, Schoch is jetting into Barcelona to join 80 classmates of 24 nationalities...
...addition to learning such traditional M.B.A. subjects as accounting and finance, the students participate in a special summer session devoted to global commerce. For three weeks, Schoch will travel from Barcelona to the University of Chicago's flagship Illinois campus and then to a second satellite campus that the university opened last fall in Singapore. "I've spent most of my career overseas working with people from different countries," says Schoch. "It just didn't make sense to drop everything to get my M.B.A. back...
...fire, drought, floods, overgrazing, overtilling and other factors. Such degradation can be irreversible. As industry, tourism and farming place greater stress on coastal areas in particular - and groundwater levels decline - "water wars" are becoming internal. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards recently took to the streets of Madrid and Barcelona to protest government plans to divert the country's largest river, the Ebro, to supply water to the southeast. Marcelino Iglesias, president of the regional government in northeastern Aragón, through which the Ebro flows, has denounced the plan as "aiming at an absolutely unsustainable model of development ... while consolidating...
...expanding the City Guides section that it launched last year to include Amsterdam and Barcelona...