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...both have great careers, so we actually were able to maintain the two careers simultaneously, but after 15 years of commuting, I’ve sort of had it,” Rosengarten says...
...eight stops away at Northeastern—classes at night, lab work during the day. Down the same tracks is the Whelan Lab at Harvard Medical School, where she’s pursuing a Ph.D. in virology. In between was Miles, who is, at present, in a garrulous sort of mood...
...Calming fireworks. It was the sort of request that tells a great deal about the charm and dangers of life in China. This is a country that runs on contradictions, whether it is the market socialism that now produces record economic growth or the plans for giant green cities, an idea that seems as likely as healthy cheeseburgers. This is a nation where party élites who have done well during the era of reform now complain ever more loudly about the ruling Communist Party. Split, ambitious, miraculous at times, but stretched on that line between past and future - this...
...help America." This has happened in some areas, not least on Beijing's balance sheet, where to get rich has meant, frankly, to lend to an indebted U.S. But what is playing out with China is an expression of a debate that has been gathering force in Beijing: What sort of model should China follow? How should it construe its national interest? Can it trust the U.S.? This debate is electric, and it is inevitable in a nation facing such huge problems. The mood in Beijing isn't what you might expect from a nation that grew at some...
...years at an average rate of some 10% a year with no rule of law. It is a very different place from the polite, harmony-seeking Middle Kingdom many Westerners expect. Real China can baffle Westerners and confound them as easily in political negotiations as in the sort of commercial nightmares that are only too commonplace. This is part of the reason our diplomacy toward Beijing often falters, as if Alice in Wonderland were dropped into a Roller Derby match...