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Although the British-born Gelb says he plans to return to China after graduation and be a journalist, he adds he will probably eventually return to his native London. "China can burn you out; it can China-you-out," he says...
...high school in Detroit, I had to have a place that I could tell my parents I was going," says Jeff M. King '88. "So my girlfriend and I would constantly go to the Electric Light Room, a preppy arcade that sold milkshakes, or to the Beehive, a burn-out, sleazy arcade that was seriously across the railroad tracks, and we'd always play Caterpillar. Of course sometimes we'd just go to the park and make out. But now whenever I play Caterpillar I remember...
...approach will never attain the ultimate level of musical and dramatic rapture that is the supposed province of opera. But the Absolute Beauty or Bust approach is not always the best, particularly when dealing with the imperfections of baroque opera. Why shoot for the heavens, perhaps to crash and burn, when you can get a nice modern chalet on Mt. Everest...
...goals in mind, cutting even one job, says AT&T President Robert Allen, is "painful." Cost cutting can also hurt the companies if it is done sloppily or with too little thought to the future. Robert Reich, a Harvard professor of political economy and management, cautions against "slash-and-burn management" that sacrifices employee loyalty and teamwork with an eye only to short-term profits...
Millions of wheezing, watery-eyed, coughing West Germans have learned that they share more than a common border and language with East Germany. They also share pollution, notably the kind that comes from East German power plants, which burn lignite, a high-polluting form of coal. Last week a stagnant high- pressure system trapped foul East German air over West Germany for several days...