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...Chinese-run companies thrive by acting as cultural interpreters. With slowing sales at home, plenty of Japanese firms are looking to China's growing middle class to sustain profits. Who better than expatriate Chinese engineers to advise researchers, for instance, that Chinese like their cell phones painted gold or red? (Japanese, by contrast, prefer white or silver hues.) "With the U.S. and Japan, everyone expects there to be big differences in terms of business culture," says TV director Zhang. "But with China and Japan, even Japanese are often surprised that we don't operate the same way." To smooth...
...dinner and end up with shoe leather. Thanks to anti-BSE measures and rising feed prices, most cattle are slaughtered at less than 30 months; they're too young and too crowded in feedlots to develop profound beef flavor. Too many consumers have been led to believe that bright red, moist, plastic-wrapped meat will yield a succulent steak. The lives of cattle and humans alike would improve if people applied the golden rule of intelligent consumption to beef: less but better...
...Important question: Red Sox or Yankees...
...taking the train almost anywhere I go—including when leaving Cambridge for home. I live in Chicago.The environmental and economic benefits of train travel are well documented: the emissions per passenger per mile are about one-tenth of flying, for example, and it was only after the Red Line was extended through Davis Square that that part of Somerville became the hip, up-and-coming neighborhood that it is today.But while I am a longtime Sierra Club member—and an economics concentrator to boot—these factors aren’t what compel...
...presumed drowned in the North Sea in March, 2002. A frenzied search for Darwin - which included a helicopter and nearly a dozen ships and canvassed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea - yielded no traces of the former prison official. When his shattered red kayak washed ashore without its captain, it seemed, surely, to spell Darwin's untimely demise...