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...Every year, in what is often called the world's largest annual migration, an estimated 180 million mainlanders go on holiday or travel home to be with their families to celebrate the Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year. Millions of these travelers are migrant workers - the real dynamo driving China's economic boom - who leave behind their jobs in factories and construction sites across the country for one of the few vacations many are allowed to take. But this year is different. Bad weather is making travel impossible; millions have been stranded on their journeys home, and with...
...team of local workers trained by area nonprofit groups that prepare unemployed Richmondites for jobs in the burgeoning green building field. "I'm happy because I'm saving money," says Schumake. "But I'm also saving the planet, and that's the major one." Van Jones, the dynamo promoting the project, breaks into a wide smile of his own. "Power by the people, for the people," says Jones. "This is the vision of the future right here...
...World Cup with mediocre players." Indeed, despite Ferguson's quota-friendly talk, he is not averse to using the best foreign talent he can find. On Wednesday, his Red Devils continued their march through the Champions League with a 4-0 thrashing of Dynamo Kiev - fueled by goals from Spanish defender Gerard Pique, Argentine striker Carlos Tevez and Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo...
...Trade Center Survivors' Network, one of the largest support groups for survivors - of which she was the president until earlier this week, when the board voted her out. Sometimes other group members felt guilty because she did so much and asked for so little in return. "She's a dynamo," one survivor told me about Head back in 2004. I remember a group of survivors applauding her at a support-group meeting, so grateful for all the work she had done...
...highly skeptical of all things hierarchical—she hates the police, despises the system that propagates marriage as the only way to organize personal lives, and dislikes established institutions like Harvard—Provost denies that she hates, well, everything. She’s one part political dynamo, one part unrepentant lover, friends say. “I admire her sense of morality on a number of social issues. I envy her energy,” says Mark M. Higgins ’07. “And she has a great laugh...