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What Rothstein does is discard information on students’ true public schools and residential locations. He substitutes locations that he estimates by cross-referencing characteristics of the school’s zipcode. The cross-referencing procedure misidentifies a student’s true public school district more than 30 percent of the time. Only by substituting erroneous for true data does he get different results...
...considered becoming a tour guide until her professor persuaded her to write a thesis on Nizamuddin, the city's Muslim quarter. She soon realized she was the first to systematically chronicle the area and was effectively "rediscovering a city." After stumbling upon a whole palace complex in the Mehrauli district of South Delhi that was being demolished, Thakur had a eureka moment. "I thought, 'This is our history. This is who we are. We've got to take this seriously.'" She trained as a conservationist in Rome, won a scholarship to the archeology school at England's University of York...
...these form a thin veneer of a state that seems to resemble those in the West. But beneath lies a complex web of fixers and power brokers, go-betweens and patrons, geared to make things happen?whether negotiating a business deal or tax settlement, bringing government projects to a district, or, it would seem, adding up the votes. This complex web baffles outsiders, who often complain of the "high cost of doing business" in the Philippines...
...sense of wonder You're in Zurich on business and want to grab some exercise between meetings. There's one option that lets you work out without working up a lather. Bluetrail, a 1.6-km-long exercise path starting in Bürkliplatz in the Swiss city's business district, was designed to get everyone moving, even men in suits. The trail's blue panels display gentle Tai Chi and qigong-like exercises. Communications agency owner David Güggenbuhl, who worked with Chinese doctors to develop Bluetrail, says, "One requirement was that these exercises could be done...
Emily J. Wallick, 15, came into Boston from Hamilton, Mass., with four friends specifically to shop at the Garment District...