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Worse, those who do secure a cherished spot in one of China's 56 M.B.A. programs don't necessarily have much to show for it. Even the Chinese Education Ministry concedes that its business schools are at a very primitive stage. Most professors still parrot information from outdated textbooks and, unsurprisingly, have no practical experience to share with students. "How can I trust my teachers if they've never dealt with a market economy?" asks an M.B.A. student at Peking University. "They have Ph.D.s in economic models that no longer exist...
...paid a visit to the classic CBS game show "The Price is Right" on its annual California road trip. In addition to the laughs and merriment provided by the show, junior co-captain Justin Micomonaco was "called on down" to be a contestant by Rod Roddy and won a parrot armoire, a bar set, and a riding lawn mower...
...First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce. RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers...
Polly Wanna #&?%?! Percy, an Amazonian green parrot, gets blue before being axed from a British kiddie play...
...Flynn of the little beasts: "I like to think of them being somewhat like kangaroos. They were similar in size, and while they didn't hop, they probably walked about on four legs and stood up on two legs to feed." Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). The rest are cynodonts, cold-blooded, reptile-like animals--the ancestors of modern mammals...