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...Thiemann was allowed to retain his tenured professorship, and now, after a year-and-a-half sabbatical, he has returned to Harvard--this time in a purely academic capacity...
...condition, defined as any that persists for a year or longer. With the number of workers who suffer from chronic illnesses like asthma and diabetes on the rise, and life expectancy extending for patients with diseases like cancer and AIDS, employers are looking for new ways to manage and retain chronically ill employees, attempting to navigate a terrain studded with legal, logistical and insurance land mines...
...Hong Kong yet. The city still has unique strengths and will no doubt retain an important role in the region, but it will be more of a niche player. It can still bank on its reputation as a freewheeling international city with a sound judicial system and guarantees of autonomy under the terms of the takeover. Those qualities could help preserve the territory's financial supremacy. The city's low business-tax rates, which hover around 16%, still attract foreign investors and entrepreneurs. In Shanghai, corporate taxes fall below 33% only for denizens of Pudong. Perhaps most important, Hong Kong...
...fact, Hong Kong is energetically trying to retain control of its future by transforming itself into the cyberhub of Asia. The government has backed a $1.7 billion project to develop 64 acres of reclaimed land into an infotech center. So far, however, the project has drawn as much controversy as acclaim. Critics regard it as specifically enhancing the interest of Richard Li, scion of the super-rich Li family, because Richard drew up the plan. Even critics acknowledge, however, that diversification is a good idea. "Hong Kong needs more than one pillar industry to sustain its economic glory, and infotech...
...conflict is based fundamentally on territory, and the two sides' mutually exclusive claims on it - hills, fields, orchards, an olive tree here, a stream there, homes, roads and shrines that individuals and groups on each side claim as their own, and are prepared to fight and die to retain or reclaim, as the case...