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...practice, the global supply chain has a headquarters, and it is in the Chinese Special Administrative Region and former British colony whose economic demise has been trumpeted more times than Paris Hilton has hit a party. Hong Kong's air may be foul and its public-education system may lag that of competitors like Singapore, but somehow or other, it continues to reinvent itself. Almost 10 years after Hong Kong was returned to China by the Brits, the city remains a top regional base for scores of international companies as well as a magnet for overseas capital. Foreign direct investment...
With that in mind, Farah is studying modafinil, a drug developed for narcolepsy that is prescribed off-label to patients with depression, ADHD or even jet lag. In the military, it's used to sharpen soldiers' alertness and cognition. Her research is attempting to determine how this chemical affects normal people. "Is there a trade-off," she wonders, "between focusing attention and reducing creativity? And if more workers use it to excel, will we have a workforce of narrow, rigid thinkers...
Despite lofty rhetoric about progress and equality, the United States and Harvard lag well behind global averages in female political participation rates. Countries as varied as Bangladesh, Great Britain, and Turkey have all had female heads-of-state, but we have not. The global average female participation rate at a parliamentary level is 16.3 percent, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The U.S. House—which currently has its highest number of female members ever, 71—only meets this percentage of 16.3 percent. The Senate’s female participation rate is an equally low 16 percent...
...surge seems to involve only guys with guns. There is a widespread feeling that the Pentagon has shouldered the entire load in Iraq while U.S. government agencies better suited for reorganizing political and economic systems have dropped the ball. Other agencies, most notably the State, Justice and Energy departments, lag in sending experts and advisers to help the Iraqis pull themselves together. Uniformed officers say they can pull off a surge, but it won't make any difference if there isn't a larger, government-wide strategy to mend the broken country...
Boys and girls, they pointed out, develop differently and are quite out of sync with each other. Most boys lag behind most girls developmentally. Although they perceive spatial relationships vividly and achieve large motor control early, their relationship to the physical world makes them less able to sit quietly, listen closely, and, in general, behave like girls...