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...this mean it's inevitable that inflation will join the long list of Chinese global exports? Economists disagree. Yiping Huang, chief Asia Pacific economist for Citibank, notes in a recent research report that, while wages are rising fast in China, labor productivity is increasing even faster, which tends to limit manufacturers' need to raise prices. Standard Chartered economist Gerard Lyons says that China's move into more valuable manufactured goods such as automobiles will in years to come have the same deflationary effects on world markets as the country's push into low-end manufacturing...
...business. In March, Chinese leaders pledged to invest at least $6 billion to produce a 150-seat jetliner that by 2020 could be competing with the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. "The ARJ21 is just the start for us," says ACAC's Luo. "Really, the sky's the limit." First, though, you've got to get the plane off the ground...
...proposal, which was withdrawn in July after vocal opposition from universities and across the country. Wendy Seltzer ’96, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, wrote in an e-mail that such legislation could “limit academic freedom” because existing software cannot distinguish between legal and illegal downloading, and would place pressure on universities. “It would require them to allocate resources at the bidding of the entertainment industry, to report on work done to enforce others’ copyrights, to implement impossible technologies...
...course, there is a limit to how finely you can split categorical hairs. Especially given increasing rates of intermarriage between races and ethnicities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep group boundaries clear. The 2000 Census marked the first time that people could identify with different race groups—thus, the United States recognizes 63 races based on self-identification, arising from six individual categories and the 57 possible combinations thereof. We could apply this logic to different ethnicities—but somehow it seems preposterous to think that creating a different ethnicity for every single combination of eleven...
...tradition of lead-eating crazies. While doing a lab on heavy metals for the course “Environmental Science in a Changing World,” Brown sophomores Megan E. Whalen, Matthew L. Wheeler, and Libby Delucia discovered that lead levels in certain campus buildings exceeded the federal limit. The lead content of the water in the applied math building peaked at 150 parts per billion—ten times the legal threshold. But this startling discovery was old news to Brown professor Steven P. Hamburg, formerly a Bullard Fellow at Harvard. “One of the recommendations...