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Much of the border is still desperately poor. McAllen, Texas, at the heart of the fourth fastest-growing metro area in the U.S., is America's poorest city, the Commerce Department announced last month, with an average per capita income of $13,339 a year. But people on both sides are helping one another do the deals, cut the corners, take a region that was forever left behind and turn it into the New Frontier. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) prospectors saw in the opening of the border a chance to make a killing by taking factories that...
...That's an unusual attitude in today's China. The nation is in the throes of the fastest urban growth in human history. In recent years the country has built an average of 2 billion sq m of floor space annually?half the world's yearly total?and plans to add another 20-30 billion by 2020. In theory, this should offer limitless opportunities for innovative urban planning. But as China's cities have grown larger, they have only become more uniform, so that each now seems to boast a skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast...
...office, set to open July 1, will serve to strengthen ties between Harvard and Brazil—“the fastest growing economy in the Western hemisphere” and “a social laboratory in terms of ethnicity, social class, and gender relations,” Coatsworth said...
Vultaggio is the blue-collar anti-CEO, a former truck driver and Brooklyn beer distributor who, with innovative packaging and consumer-friendly pricing, has built Arizona into the fastest-growing major bottled-tea brand in the country. And he has done it on his own terms, dismissing the conventional wisdom about management (chairmen schmooze; they don't reorganize warehouses in the middle of the night), finances (entrepreneurs sell out or go public as soon as they can) and marketing (consumer companies spend at least a few bucks on advertising to consumers) along the way. "Don came up from the bottom...
...when it came to what describing what Greg does best, Steve almost did just that.“He’s fast,” he said. “Just fast; flat-out speed. Every year there’s a lacrosse magazine that always rates the fastest players, and he comes out on top every year.”“In high school, you just run by everybody,” Harvard coach Scott Andersen said. “There are more challenges in college, so he’s still developing. But he?...