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...Stronger educational and financial fundamentals are essential, but the U.S.'s physical foundation-its infrastructure-also needs work. "If you went to Kennedy Airport and Shanghai airport, which would you say is the more advanced country?" asks Rubin. China's roads are in better shape than many found in the U.S., starting with the potholed, neglected highways near the Detroit auto factories that put America on wheels in the first place. On trains zipping past Indian fields, passengers surf the Internet on their laptop computers. On subway cars deep underground in China, riders chat on cell phones. Not in America...
...science skills required to succeed in the information-technology industry," says Craig R. Barrett, chairman of Intel. "We need to raise our sights and not tolerate the mediocrity we already have." John Chen, the chairman and ceo of Sybase, a California software company (and a man whose parents fled Shanghai for Hong Kong after the communists took over in China), says: "We are not equipped as an economy to go to the next knowledge base. Yes, we have the best university system in the world, but we're not feeding that system. We're not investing in creativity." Indeed, because...
...recent studies suggest, however, that certain foods may increase the risk of cancer. Publishing in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers analyzed data from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study and found that postmenopausal Asian women who had adopted more Western-style diets - high in red meat, bread, desserts and candy - had a two times greater risk of breast cancer than peers who stuck with traditional Asian diets consisting of vegetables, soy and fish. A separate study of 50,000 postmenopausal women, published in the current British Journal of Cancer, found that women who ate a quarter...
...Today's fissures in central authority might seem tiny by comparison, but they are significant nonetheless. In the boomtowns of Shanghai and Guangzhou, municipal meetings are often conducted in local dialects, as opposed to the national language, Mandarin. Trade rivalries between provinces have resulted in absurd internal tariffs that foreign manufacturers must pay when transporting their products out of China. And even though Beijing executed the country's former top food and drug regulator for graft last week, the international scandal over tainted Chinese products speaks more to the central government's inability to monitor what's going...
Jimmy Y. Li ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a neurobiology concentrator in Leverett House. If it weren’t for the smoke, he’d spend all his time in dingy little Shanghai restaurants...