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Hodge says the secret is to reach boys before they get into trouble--he uses the academy's basketball facilities to lure youngsters still in grade school. Once you have their attention, you must show them a world of possibilities that you genuinely believe they can achieve. "Young people are looking for validation," he says. "You are important. You will be successful. We don't talk about 'if' you go to college. Around here it's 'when' you go to college...
...culture continues to develop, demand will continue to increase. China today accounts for 5% of global consumption, but investment bank Credit Suisse predicts that number will rise to 14% by 2015, making the country the world's second largest buyer of consumer goods behind the U.S. That potential will lure more and more foreign retailers and investors, Hand says. For example, CapitaLand, a Singapore-based real estate investment company, aims to add 100 Chinese malls to its portfolio, which would more than double its current assets, according to the company's annual report. "Foreign firms will pass along good management...
...York City, Paris and London followed different models to become cosmopolitan cities. Singapore doesn't have the throbbing cultural and art ethos that continues to lure immigrants to New York City; the creative, warm and human landscape that is Paris; or the universal language and literature of London. Perhaps the Los Angeles model of rich settlers and the Las Vegas model of transient spenders have inspired Singapore more than the three big world cities Lee mentioned. I hope that museums, creative ambiance and Old World charm are somewhere on the agenda. Nevertheless the challenge is huge, especially considering the ambitious...
Europe's open borders are a strong draw for traffickers, because they allow smugglers to move with relative ease across the Continent, which contains millions of people with money to spend. The strong euro is also a lure. A kilogram of uncut cocaine wholesales for about $40,000 in Spain - roughly double the U.S. price. (In Russia and Norway, one kilogram can fetch up to $120,000.) Divided into street-sized amounts, a kilogram can earn five times those figures. Since moving in on Europe in the mid-'90s, the cartels - overwhelmingly Colombian, but also Venezuelan and Mexican - have hugely...
...Maybe the lure of the Presidency will be impossible to resist. But Bloomberg is 65 years old, and even some of his admirers struggle to imagine him crashing in a Holiday Inn in Nashua, N.H. They also struggle to imagine him shedding the last vestiges of his privacy (and some of his luxury!) to live in the White House; as Mayor, he's refused to tell the City Hall press corps when he's jetted off to his vacation home in Bermuda. Bloomberg has led a charmed life, but if he ever wonders about the pitfalls of a rich...