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...privations of entrepreneurs like Mao have alarming consequences for the entire country. As China shifts from a state-controlled economy to a free-market system, the nation's health hinges in large part on the success of gritty local companies producing pedestrian goods and services. Small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) generate most of China's employment growth, and new jobs are vitally important to social stability. According to government statistics, companies with an annual revenue of less than $30 million provide more than eight out of every 10 jobs in urban China and account for three-quarters...
Sometimes the movement was rather pedestrian, sometimes elements of ethnic dance crept in; there was even a fair share of wild sprinting across the stage...
...every purchase made over the past 10 years, looking at the relationships between the items people buy and hundreds of other variables such as time of day and price. The data miners are constantly searching for exploitable relationships - say, between sales of cameras and atlases. Or take something as pedestrian as laundry detergent. Wal-Mart used to stock its stores all over the U.S. by using one of 18 basic display "modulars" for detergents until one of the buyers began to analyze the numbers. Now there are 288 of them. One can think of Wal-Mart as a huge pipe...
Chopra has also worked with the City of Cambridge on a project to improve pedestrian safety, advised University President Lawrence H. Summers on the naming of a new dean of the Faculty last year and served on multiple student-Faculty committees...
...While the risk to any individual driver or passenger or pedestrian is very low, because so many people use cell phones now, the overall risk to society raises an important issue for policy makers,” Cohen said...