Word: decentering
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...flagging birth rate, that goal can be reached only by admitting up to 1 million foreigners, more than doubling the current expat population of 875,400. Drawing in so many worker bees will require a lot of honey, in the form of good jobs, recreational opportunities, decent housing-the myriad elements that factor into a city's lifestyle. It will also require a certain amount of buzz-and Singapore is not currently thought of as an exciting city. Not that it isn't a model in many ways. It's admired for its efficient government, first-world infrastructure, solid educational...
...Next door to the Pousada is the unimaginatively named but decent IFT Educational Restaurant-another student-run enterprise that's easy on the wallet. Among its features are a menu of traditional Macanese fare and a well-edited list of wines priced as low as 40% cheaper than the local norm. It's enough to make you order that glass of 30-year-old reserve port and toast the value of vocational education...
...Station may be fully booked through 2009, but the budget traveler still has options. Opening Memorial Day weekend is NASA's own space shuttle simulator at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Designed for the Holiday Inn crowd, the space tourist can get a decent sense of lift off and flight to low-earth orbit for $38 ($28 for children), less than the price of a typical theme park admission...
...teaching and research missions. A good employer provides the wages, benefits, and other conditions of employment necessary to attract, retain, and motivate employees. Attaining these personnel-related outcomes requires compensation levels that significantly contribute to ensuring that Harvard's workers and their families enjoy at least a minimally decent standard of living. Harvard should aspire to be an exemplary employer for all its workers...
Then a hideous green monster appeared and threw the realm into chaos. Handsome princes were mocked, damsels saved themselves, and ogres and dragons were shown to be decent folks once you got to know them...