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...there is little chance that there will be many female physics graduates at Harvard under a system that makes most first-year students ineligible to study physics before they arrive. The discrimination is carried out by parents who are less likely to encourage their 12-year-old daughters to shun their friends and other interests to study physics and math and go to math camp. This should not be required of children of either...
Want a job? Try once down-and-out places like Houston, Salt Lake City and Gary, where newspapers are thick with help-wanted ads. But shun former go-go hot spots such as Boston, Phoenix and Atlanta, where 1980s-style booms in everything from computers to construction have suddenly gone bust...
Supporters of the law argue that Japan cannot provide basic services such as education and medical care to the unskilled immigrants, who are concentrated in low-paying construction and manufacturing jobs that Japanese often shun. But opponents charge that the crackdown will "push Asian laborers into even more inferior working conditions and further Japan's xenophobia...
What's all this nationalism, anyway? This is increasingly one world, and the goal is for the whole globe to prosper, not to have the Japanese shun our rice, or we their cars, out of tribal paranoia. So what if Detroit just laid off more than 24,000 workers, with predictions of more to come...
...delivery," declares David Blum, 31, the entrepreneur who started Dial-A-Dinner 18 months ago. Now he has 22 people, 15 cars and six vans, all radio equipped, hurtling about 200 dinners a night across Manhattan. Among Blum's culinary suppliers are Petrossian Paris, the famous caviar emporium, and Shun Lee Palace, where the Peking duck costs...