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...that some Hong Kong residents no longer shop there for cheap household goods and knock-off designer clothes. But with per capita GDP of almost $7,500, Shenzhen is among the richest cities in China. Today's downtown is a jumble of traffic-clogged streets, luxury hotels, Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton stores, and foreign eateries like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. At the Portofino housing complex on the city's outskirts, golf carts carry residents from their lavish condominiums to the development's pricey European restaurant...
...boss's business if you have a cigarette after dinner? After an Irish job ad stipulated that "smokers need not apply," that [an error occurred while processing this directive] question was put to the European Commission, which decided that employers refusing to hire smokers do not breach European antidiscrimination laws. "The Commission can legislate on age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, race and gender," says Commission spokesperson Katharina von Schnurbein. "For all other areas, it's the member state's responsibility." Critics fumed that though some countries, such as France and Belgium, have laws requiring employers to hire on qualifications alone...
...Give Grades an F In your adult life, it's likely that nobody, not even your boss, will ever care what grades you got in college. Some schools don't much care either and have taken grades out of the equation. Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., opts instead for detailed written evaluations of student projects. Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., says not distracting students with letter grades is key to making sure they're motivated only by a love of learning. Don't worry, pre-med and pre-law students: more than half of all Hampshire students...
...Neill, head of the FBI's al-Qaeda unit, and his struggle to pry essential information out of the CIA, can bring a reader to angry tears. (O'Neill, who will be the subject of a TV movie starring Havey Keitel, left the agency in frustration, became security boss of the World Trade Center, and died on 9/11...
...boats. Lightning fries navigation systems, and storms sweep men off deck. Their only connections to the rest of the world are radios and unreliable cellular phone reception.And the shrimpers themselves are notorious, too. After trying day labor and construction, they often drift to this profession, where there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into the Gulf, Chris scrutinized the regional section of the paper. He wanted to see his friends’ names, he joked.I worked with the people who photographed and wrote that section. They had told me to run background checks on any shrimpers...