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...worker was roving the streets of a working-class neighborhood in Hong Kong's Kowloon district, looking out for truant youth, when she came across a gaggle of Pakistani kids playing soccer. They ran and tackled each other along the edge of a pavement, in view of an unoccupied public field equipped with proper goals. Bemused, Wong asked them why they weren't using the actual soccer pitch, which was open to all. "People told us we're not allowed there," came the response. "It's for Chinese only...
...Africans, and cling to shallow and negative stereotypes. (This even though many South Asians speak fluent Cantonese and have ties to the city that predate the Chinese majority.) It's an apathy that has led to hiring practices in the city that discriminate against minorities as well as a public school system that has neglected a generation of poor non-Chinese. Even many of Wong's social-worker colleagues are bewildered by her interest in defending the rights of South Asians over improving the lot of fellow Chinese. "There is no empathy here," she says. Watch TIME's video "Hong...
...would help the economy, and if applied through Fed programs in terms of outright purchases of assets, yes, I think it would help the markets. I do sort of expect another stimulus program in 2010 at some point, but it can't be a big one, because the American public and indeed the rest of the world is increasingly demanding some type of fiscal discipline...
...obese people made up such stories to justify their "failed lives"). David Williamson, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was the lone exception. He said that a large epidemiological study was needed to determine whether there were any implications of Felitti's findings for public health...
...Boston Globe article describes Warren as "a burr under the saddle of official Washington." In public statements, Warren has faulted the government—and the Treasury in particular—for funneling money into Wall Street as the middle class faces further constraints...