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Such uncertainties have affected foreign universities operating in China since Beijing opened up its higher-education sector in the 1980s. There are now 800 programs jointly run by foreign and Chinese schools, but government directives, bureaucratic red tape and other hassles make them an ongoing challenge for Western partners. Southwest University was one of the dozens whose programs were cancelled during a relicensing campaign the Ministry of Education initiated years ago. But American interest, particularly for starting business schools, remains high. "Any business school that wants to remain relevant is going to be actively involved in engaging its students...
When the swimming pools are dry and the golf courses are brown, then--and only then--will I be convinced that the people living in the Southwest are serious about resolving ecological problems. Meanwhile, we will keep on subsidizing their peccadilloes...
...transported home to improve the lot of one’s countrymen. It’s a scenario that’s difficult not to romanticize.It’s all much harder when you come from plain-and-simple Canada or, worse, from the American Midwest or Southwest or South or West or Northwest or anywhere but two cities in California and one in Illinois. Take the romance out of your place of origin, and not moving up to the big leagues is hard to justify. “I’m going to work in agricultural reform...
...disaster arose before the fires had even begun to die down. While environmental scientists are careful not to blame the droughts or heat waves of any one season on climate change, the overwhelming majority of climate models point to more of these extreme conditions in the already dry Southwest as the planet warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than...
...long-term forecast isn't any better. Few scientists expect dry areas like the Southwest to do anything but grow dryer still. The past several years have been among the dryest on record in the West, leaving the Colorado River - which supplies water to 30 million people - at its lowest level in 85 years of measurements. If the mountain snowpack that stores much of the water used by the West were to melt because of higher temperatures, all the reservoirs in the world might not be enough to keep the region wet. Even if the effects of climate change turn...