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...Time is something that Xi Junling has a lot of these days. The 21-year-old graduated last month with an accounting degree from the Shanxi Construction Engineering Institute of Technology in central China. In the four months she has looked for a job, she has had one offer: ad-agency secretary, which paid $234 per month. As Xi knows well, there are migrant construction workers who earn more than that. She turned the job down, then had second thoughts. "It's been harder than I expected to get a job, so I called them back. But it had been...
...incidents illustrate two broader problems in China's higher-education system. Education is such a bedrock value that "kids who really shouldn't even be in college go anyway, and then expect a good-paying job when they graduate," says the human-resources executive. Two years ago, the central government implicitly acknowledged this problem when it announced a plan to increase the number and quality of vocational schools throughout the country, hoping to siphon off some of the kids going to universities while still providing them with decent job opportunities. Employers say it's too early to say whether...
...Even the Central Council of Jews in Germany has changed its zero-tolerance stance toward a German release of Mein Kampf. "An aggressive and enlightened way of dealing with the book would undoubtedly divest it of much of the myth that so unjustly surrounds it," says Stephan Kramer, the organization's general secretary. The "lack of comprehensive knowledge about the [National Socialist] regime" doesn't allow German youths to put the book "into context." A well-annotated edition is both "sensible and important...
...residents that his company has yet to determine exactly what caused the leak. Styrene is commonly used in the manufacture of plastics, rubbers, and other resin compounds. Short-term exposure to the chemical can cause irritation of mucous membranes and gastrointestinal effects, while long-term exposure can damage the central nervous system, causing headaches, fatigue, or depression. After Turner Construction was notified of the leak the same morning, officials from Turner and its subcontractor Spiniello Construction, used fans to divert the fumes away from the neighborhood. They also channeled the contaminated water into the Boston Water and Sewer bypass, mixing...
...felt that we couldn't afford that people lose confidence in the banks," says acting Central Bank president David Amaglobeli, 32, an unflappable Oregon State University graduate, whom I meet in the central bank office, a grand old building with high ceilings and frescoes and gilt-edged windows dating from the Russian Empire. Amaglobeli's family became refugees during the Abkhazia conflict in 1992. He says the current crisis is stirring bad memories. "I remember the smell of gunfire, the smell of war in the air. It was very painful to see the loss of territory, people falling into poverty...