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...survived, but had broken his back. I asked two of his co-workers whether he thought the company they worked for would pay his medical bills. One of them replied, "Probably not,'' and said if need be they'd take up a collection for him among fellow workers and hope that his family from neighboring Anhui province might also chip...
...unites the two groups is China's continued growth. My middle-class neighbors, like Yu Xiang, take it as a given. "As long as there is economic development that will allow me to work and raise my family in a nice new area," he says, "that's what I hope for now. My whole family does. We hope to stay here a long time...
...migrants, of course, hope to move on. Before my wife and I bought a car here, we used to call a guy named Shi Guozheng, 27, from Anhui, who was a taxi driver of sorts. Shi had a battered old van, and made a living transporting migrant workers back and forth to their home towns. He was married, and often his wife, Lin, was in the car on our journeys into town. Over time my wife and she became friendly. One day last summer, they had tea together and Lin told Joyce she was pregnant, and that...
...While a handful of third-party sites already offer digital downloads of Bollywood films, Rajshri Group and Eros Entertainment hope to do it on a scale never attempted before, allowing fans around the world to watch thousands of films, TV shows, music videos and more - much of it for free. "What is surprising is that no one in India has done it sooner," says Rajjat A. Barjatya, managing director of Rajshri Media, Rajshri Group's digital-media and entertainment arm. "This model hasn't worked for Hollywood because they are extremely protective of their content and their domestic market...
...second level is that I always ask—whether it is in class or in the response papers—I always ask how can we take these ideas and apply them to our lives. In other words, it is a very applied class where the students hopefully use the ideas to become happier and to help others become happier.6.FM: So if the course is about happiness, how do you grade it? Smiles?TBS: [Laughter] No, a smile is a B, a laugh is an A. As I said, the course is graded like any other course. [...] They have...