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Harvard inaugurated its first China office in Shanghai last week as part of a recent increase in the University's international reach, which will soon include an office in Beijing, multiple outposts in Mumbai, India, and an office in Mexico City...
...year less per student than their U.S. rivals, according to a 2006 report by the European Commission. Lower revenues mean lower spending, and the result is bleakly evident in rankings of the world's best universities. In the highly regarded table published annually by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, European institutions fill just four of the top 25 places; wealthy North American institutions account for almost all the rest...
...Gleneagles - was characteristically optimistic. "When I began this process in 2005, the issue was one of political will," he said. "But the world has woken up. The question is not, what is the problem, but what is the solution?" In a way, Blair is right. From San Antonio to Shanghai, ordinary people, business leaders and politicians are worried about climate change. They're afraid, and they want something done about it. Even the long recalcitrant U.S. has come around, with both presidential candidates supporting significant climate action (though Democratic Senator Barack Obama promises to go much further), and states like...
...That same ethos now extends to urban landscapes across the world's most populous nation. Basketball may not yet be China's most popular sport, but it's getting there. The public courts in Shanghai and Beijing are more crowded than ever now. Show up at a court on a fine Saturday morning in the spring and you can wait for an hour or more to get in a game...
...That's what Zhou Qiang was doing this past April, at a playground not far from the Xujiahui area in central Shanghai. Dressed in a gold Kobe Bryant Lakers jersey, a baseball hat worn slightly askew and Nike high-tops, he's got the American hip-hop look of a baller down pat. He's 16 years old and started playing four years ago. "I come here sometimes four times a week," he says. "I like the game, I like the fact that it's a team game but that individual skills matter a lot. You can be creative...