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...China get do good at making chairs? To find the answer, travel 120 miles from Shanghai to a cluster of villages in the Yangtze delta. Eighteen hundred years ago, an Emperor fond of its forests named the area Anji, which means "peaceful auspiciousness." Until recently, its residents farmed bamboo and grew white tea. Then in 1982, as economic reforms took hold in China, a state-owned factory set up to supply lab stools to a nearby university made the country's first five-wheeled swivel chair. Soon local bamboo farmers pooled their savings to start factories themselves. By the late...
...there's an edge to Gulpilil's laugh, there's good reason. Shot in a crocodile-infested lagoon just after last year's wet season, Ten Canoes was as thrilling in the making as it is on screen (its filming will be the subject of an SBS documentary, Eighteen Canoes, to be aired close to the film's Australian release in June). For up to seven hours a day, director and crew would wade through thick swamp, with crocodile spotters on platforms above. "It really was the leeches getting you from the waist down; mosquitoes from above the waist," says...
...work at a university should earn less than their counterparts at for-profit corporations. Harvard should follow Yale’s lead. If Dave Swenson earns $1 million each year for the truly superior work he does, Harvard should be truly ashamed of paying any in-house manager eighteen times what Swenson makes...
...children. Annette Cashell Nuremberg, Germany Your article reported that German women are forced to choose between working or having a family. I came to Germany from Italy to study at a university in Munich. My idea of Germany was one of a technologically driven, progressive and modern society. Eighteen years later, after working and having my children here, I have to admit that the picture is a very different one: women have to cope with an entrenched patriarchal attitude in both the workplace and society and are offered very little support and empathy when striving to have a career...
...enterprise, attracting the best students in the world, setting standards for excellence across and beyond the University. We take pride in the fact that so many colleagues and students have taken part in the Working Groups of our first year and the review committees of the past eighteen months; that faculty and students alike have produced substantial essays on education at Harvard; [2] and that every department and concentration is now discussing curricular renewal...