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...with vibrant residential life, parks, and nighttime entertainment. “We wanted a mixture of laboratories, office space, and social elements that are essential for any high quality of life,” Awad said. “The highest quality of life would be attached to the lowest environmental footprint.” The city will be home to around 50,000 people, while another 40,000 will commute. Because cars will be banned in Masdar, all commuters must walk, ride bicycles, or use public transportation to enter the city. The panel began 20 minutes late...
...also refused to give up their annual salaries. All the while, the trio, rounded out by Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli, proclaimed their innocence for the mess their companies are in, laying the blame largely on an unprecedented credit crunch that has helped push car and truck sales to their lowest level in 25 years...
...that could fall below 10% by the end of the year because of lower Christmas-season orders for products like electronics. And China's notoriously thrifty consumers haven't made up for the drop in foreign demand. Amid the global turmoil, their expectations for rising incomes are at the lowest level recorded in years. All of that threatens to turn Dongxiaokou from the epicenter of a bustling recycling economy into a massive junkyard...
This year's survey highlighted one big group of students who appear to be underserved by many schools: transfer students. NSSE found some 40% of seniors had started at a different institution. Yet according to the survey respondents, transfers tend to receive some of the lowest amount of support on campus. They speak less frequently with faculty members about future plans, work less often with classmates on assignments and half the number of transfers participate in co-curricular activities at about half the rate as non-transfer students. "Schools simply must work harder to pull transfer students in because they...
Across the board, countries scored the lowest in the political empowerment subsection. The United States, which received strong marks in three categories, including a perfect score in educational attainment, was ranked 56th in political empowerment...