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...well as a real house." Their homes are about the same size as ours, and they probably paid roughly the same price as we did ($165,000). Most have young children (this being China, usually just one) and have also brought parents or parents-in-law with them, also common in China...
...bike ride, past the security guards at the entrance of Emerald Riverside. The developments here aren't exactly gated communities, but all of them are guarded, and for a legitimate reason: the fault lines between the migrants and the middle class are very real. Petty crime - theft, primarily - is common; and rarely do the two groups interact. Qiu, the young woman who loaded bricks, told me I was the only "rich" person she had ever had a long conversation with since she started working here two years ago. The only thing that unites the two groups is China's continued...
...take the fun out of play, but if you're an overambitious parent or coach with a young athlete in your charge, you may have managed to do it. Weekly sessions of intensive muscle-strengthening, grueling push-up regimens and long intervals on fast-paced treadmills are becoming common for grade-school kids. Elite training centers that promise to give young athletes an edge during the off-season have been popping up since 2000, especially in affluent sections of New England and the Midwest...
...their hotel room with a single query, instead of searching for the three items separately. To realize such a vision, individual organizations must be willing to release their data for public use, requiring great courage and initiative, according to Berners-Lee. “It’s common in an organization for people to feel protective about their data,” he said. “The leadership that is required to change the ethos, the fear that happens about letting go of the data, is huge,” But when an audience member questioned the potential...
...Asian American applicants to Harvard, checking off the “particular ethnic group” box on the Common Application just became more nerve-wracking. According to a study published Friday in the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, affirmative action policies disadvantage Asian American applicants more than they do white ones. Charles V. Willie, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and an expert in school desegregation, attributes this finding to Asian Americans having the most integrated educational experiences and attending college at very high rates relative to other groups. Still, he said...