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...government announced Healthy China 2020 earlier this year, a major health care reform plan that seeks to provide basic health care to all Chinese residents within the next 12 years. The initiative requires improving the country's vast network of public hospitals, a prospect on which Sunnylife Global Inc., a publicly traded company in West Covina, Calif., is staking its future. Sunnylife entered its first joint venture in 2003 to upgrade some of the country's public hospitals by providing everything from updated equipment to structural improvements. Dr. Bridget Cheng, who co-founded the company in 2000, envisioned bringing...
...that I could communicate with ghosts by using my grandfather’s old Underwood typewriter, and I thought that if I didn’t put paper in it I could somehow type letters to the dead. I guess what really excites me is the prospect of [cultivating] a sense of the strange and the wondrous. The second was something that [English professor] Gordon Teskey said in a lecture. He was talking about how with poetry or literature or art it’s a little bit like taking a tree and making it into a table. The table...
...that the art world was going wrong… I was starting to receive commissions. I was being asked to paint the ceiling of the Paris Opera House. Society seemed to be preparing to paint my work for me. I could have obeyed; many, perhaps most, painters do. The prospect did not coincide with my desire.”Hantaï’s thought process, that of the artist’s struggle against commercialization, represents a long artistic tradition. The tradition of the street artist stems from a philosophy fundamentally at odds with American property theory...
...congressman said yesterday that he will introduce legislation this January requiring colleges and universities to spend at least 5 percent of their endowments each year, a move that follows months of heated debate over the prospect of such a mandate...
...Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Japan, summed up the frantic day in Asia. "Investor sentiment is in panic," Kanno said over the prospect of the spreading financial crisis dragging the global economy into a severe recession. The latest economic indicators are fueling this loss of confidence. For example, Japan's corporate bankruptcies jumped 34% in September, the largest increase since 2000, according to Tokyo Shoko Research...