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There are some nights on which you know you're going to be bad, and as I slink down the sleepy western reaches of Hong Kong's Hollywood Road-passing grimy shop fronts and shabby apartment buildings-I become aware that this is one of them. Because just for tonight, I'm going to mentally tear up the mildly disappointing results of a physical checkup I had three months ago, and play fast and loose with cardiovascular health. I'm headed for the Cheese Room, triglyceride levels be damned...
Petrobras started this free after-work program to teach reading, arithmetic and elementary science in 2005 after officials noticed an unusually high number of accidents occurring on the shop floor because laborers could not read warning signs. More than just the workers' safety and Petrobras' productivity is at stake. The woeful state of education in Brazil, the world's fifth largest country, is compromising productivity and competitiveness and acting as a brake on the country's development, according to economists, businesspeople and educators. With the economies of China and India surging ahead, thanks in part to their large pools...
...from comprehending or manipulating numbers, even small ones, easily. Though you may have never heard of it, the condition is much more than being bad at math. "You need to hear people suffering from dyscalculia, how hard it is for them to do everyday things, just going to the shop, counting change," says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a research fellow at University College London (UCL). Other practical impossibilities for dyscalculics: balancing a checkbook, planning for retirement, being a baseball fan. The list goes...
...Several successful European entrepreneurs are working on answers - and their novel approaches to issues such as room size and pricing could change the travel industry. One of these fledgling hoteliers is Sinclair Beecham, co-founder of the U.K.'s Pret A Manger sandwich-shop chain, who last autumn opened the 205-room Hoxton Hotel, which he calls an "urban lodge," in London. Urban lodge? Unlike a Shrager-inspired boutique hotel, where cool, sleek design often comes off cold, Hoxton Hotel has the homey comforts of a rural inn. Yet, says Beecham, "It's got concrete floors, exposed columns and exposed...
...boys’ (read: final) clubs. For others, it’s a sign of spring and of garden parties. For me, it represents neither and that’s probably why I like it. I bought my first and only seersucker blazer in Canada at a thrift shop on summer break after freshman year. It was in mint condition, the right size, and the perfect price ($10). Canada is an odd locale for seersucker suits, and even after attending high school there, I have yet to see any of it worn on the shores of British Columbia. Thus...