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That he did. But the display of Ricci's great map is a chance to do more than just gawk at his achievement. There is a popular tendency in the West to see China's modern engagement with global society as something brand-new, the sundering of a hermetic seal by which China walled itself away from everyone else. This is quite false. China has been open to other cultures - and influenced them in its turn - for centuries. There's nothing preordained about how its modern rise will play out; much will depend on the skill with which China...
...revealed a major restructuring that included 1,800 management and administrative layoffs. Two weeks later, on Feb. 8, he announced plans to furlough at least 300 of the company's 2,800 pilots. These cuts come on the heels of a 4% reduction in UPS's 408,000-strong global workforce...
Abroad, though, is also where UPS faces some of its biggest risk. Increasingly stringent environmental laws and rising costs for Asian labor and raw materials all make this business vulnerable. An even more immediate concern is the possibility of government-imposed tariffs or border restrictions. "Global trade is going to lead this recovery," Davis says. "I get on my bully pulpit against anything that could impede...
Marques worked with her husband to found a Brazilian human rights organization called Global Justice Center. Cavallaro headed the organization for several years before the couple would relocate to Cambridge, where Cavallaro began his work as associate director of the HLS Human Rights Program. Marques, though, travelled between Angola and Cambridge several times a year for Human Rights Watch to conduct research on freedom of speech and on resettlement issues...
...Born Subversive: A Memoir of Survival,” was published in April 2008. It is currently being adapted into a play. Now, Marques spends her time as a research coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health working on a global health initiative project...