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...evidence indicates that virtual psychiatry visits work just fine for children and adolescents. Perhaps it's a sign of the times, an era in which teens feel more comfortable in front of a camera than they do face to face. "Videoconferencing is part of their everyday existence - it's like texting or Skype," says Drell...
...bigger: a lovely five-bedroom, riverfront suburban house, owned but never occupied by a coal magnate from Shanxi province. "How much does he want for it?" he asked a local real estate agent in late February. When told the answer was $735,000, Yang didn't blink. "I'd like to make an offer." (Read "Bubble Trouble: Why Real Estate Is China's Biggest Headache...
...estate sector, only about 50% of residential purchases are made using mortgages. The other half are paid for in full at the time of acquisition. (In the U.S., by contrast, over 90% of residential housing transactions are financed with mortgages.) One of the reasons for this is that, just like Yang, many Chinese have been moved out of formerly state-owned housing units in urban areas as part of redevelopment projects. The compensation payments, supplemented by some savings, are usually enough to buy decent apartments out of town. Economist Xie calls these resettlement payments "probably the most important government action...
...Compounding the book's hamfisted nature is its tendency to sound like an apologia for the Chinese government. For instance, the Naisbitts blame "the Western press" for stoking fear about the 2003 SARS epidemic and contend that "Chinese media broke the news of official suppression of information about the SARS outbreak" in Beijing in 2003. In fact, the cover-up was revealed by Jiang Yanyong, a courageous Communist Party doctor whose statement on the subject was first published in TIME. The Naisbitts' claim that Hong Kong people "never really demanded" democracy is also nonsense, given the massive demonstrations that took...
...political and economic situations in most African countries are repugnant, which is why Africans risk their lives to go to Europe even when they know it is not a bed of roses. The solution is for the Western governments to be resolute in blocking the emergence of dictators like Robert Mugabe. These leaders threw Africa into turmoil and the repercussion is the unprecedented flow of Africans into Europe. Sam Usadolo, KING WILLIAM'S TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...