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...merely cutting bureaucratic red tape, however. The goal in melding Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the report said, is to create a megacity that, by 2020, would surpass London and Los Angeles as an international economic juggernaut. It's a quintessentially capitalist solution befitting a quintessentially capitalist city. Need to grow to keep pace with competitors? Find a merger partner. "I think a closer relationship with the mainland is inevitable and by now is accepted by both sides," says Shiu Sin-por, a member of the Hong Kong government's Central Policy Unit...
...with the world's rich come their kids, future soft diplomats who either grow up to study, live and work in London or go back home with lifelong links to the city. "You go to Hong Kong now, and half the top businessmen you talk to were educated in Britain," says Barnaby Lenon, headmaster of Harrow, a top boarding school for boys where 10% of the students are foreigners. "Even if our students don't stay in London, if they're involved in the world of finance, it's going to be indirectly a great help to British business...
...there are so few girls completing their education, how do you grow the next generation of female teachers? The first answer, says Atmar, is to remove all other impediments to girls' going to school. That means constructing new buildings so classes aren't held in the open. In the meantime, unconventional inducements can help. In a successful program in some rural areas, girls are given a free ration of oil and flour at the end of every month. This encourages their poor families to keep sending them to school. Increasing teachers' salaries would convince more parents that their daughters should...
Finally, I think gay and lesbian couples may prefer more heart-racing during conflict because of what happens to gays and lesbians as kids. Although the world is changing--more than 3,700 schools now have student clubs that welcome gays--many gay kids still grow up believing that what they want is disgusting. They repress for years, and when they finally do have relationships, they need them to carry sufficient drama into those emotional spaces that were empty for so long. Gays need their relationships to scorch...
...Managua of today still has the feeling of a rural backwater that hopes one day to grow up to be a capital city. No building is taller than 10 stories. There are still more trees than buildings, and going "downtown" means going to the Metrocentro shopping mall...