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This new calendar should become the default publicizing medium on campus. While the UC’s idea to make funding contingent on using the events calendar is a good one, they should also actively discourage email spamming...
...American and international mentors. How can a largely illiterate army plan the complex logistics that allow soldiers to be clothed, armed, fed and transported where they are needed? While Afghan soldiers are undeniably brave on the battlefield, their skills with anything other than basic tactics and small-to-medium firearms are limited. One frustrated American trainer of Afghan soldiers confided to me that his Afghan mortar team was going nowhere. With little understanding of geometry, the soldiers were depending on guesswork, rather than precision degrees, to aim their indirect fire - in a populated region where one or two degrees...
...businesses like Yap's ornamental-fish-breeding company - a nimble, small-to-medium-size specialized enterprise that trades with China but does not directly compete with Chinese companies - that stand to benefit the most from unfettered access to China's one billion customers. Sixty percent of the world's supply of ornamental fish comes from Southeast Asia, whose warmer waters and diverse aquatic eco-system has given it a competitive advantage that China cannot easily wrest away. A fully grown dragonfish, which Yap says aspiring Chinese businessmen gravitate to, can fetch up to $20,000 - each. Producing the fish...
...comfort to Chen Li. Like millions of other Chinese, the Beijing-based Web developer is struggling with one of the side effects of the country's stimulus efforts - a runaway property market. Fueled by cheap credit, property prices have grown steadily since mid-2009. A government survey of 70 medium- and large-size cities found that in December, average housing costs jumped 2.1% over the previous month - the fastest increase in 18 months. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...
...overmedicated by a psychiatrist - going through so many combinations of medications - and that made me very afraid of trusting psychiatrists and drugs. So I went from that extreme to doing everything holistically and hoping yoga, acupuncture and meditation would cure me. What I've found now is a happy medium between...