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...haven't been to the places Hessler describes in Country Driving or met the people whose stories he tells with his characteristic blend of empathy, insight and self-deprecating humor. Yet I never doubt for a second that he's writing about the richly hued and socially variegated country that I know, as opposed to one of the imaginary lands conjured up in Big China Books...
...Critics say that Baidu has won favor with the government through its rigorous self-censorship. (Punch in "Tiananmen Square 1989" and you'll mostly get results about security arrangements for the 2008 Olympics and last year's celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, with only a few sanitized references to the student demonstrations.) Authorities have certainly scrutinized and disrupted Google's China operations far more frequently than Baidu's (one former Google employee calls it "operational harassment"). But it's not at all clear that it made much of a difference...
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This research should also be a wake-up call for Harvard’s administrators. There are no real outlets or motivators for students to get active, especially toward the end of semesters when intramurals have ended. There are gym classes, but only those who are very self-motivated attend those. In many liberal arts colleges across the nation, there is a physical educational requirement. Although Harvard does not necessarily need to add such a requirement, it might be time to offer outlets for exercise, such creating and facilitating student run groups, keeping gyms open later, and longer intramural periods...
...restaurant Chez Panisse. The idea got bigger and bigger and won the hearts of Gen X chefs in the 1990s. What New York magazine critic Adam Platt called "haute barnyard" had come to define America. Words like seasonal, local and, best of all, green market were shibboleths for every self-respecting cook from potato peeler on up. It made for a lot of roasted heritage pork and hand-foraged hen of the woods mushrooms, but it's something of a stylistic dead end. (See pictures of urban farming around the world...