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...better educated children; it allows larger profits which results in better R&D and farming methods, better forecasting of which crops to plant to meet demand, improved ability to change crops when needed, and better and cheaper transport for harvests to market. If you truly want to end poverty, start by absorbing small landholders into large-scale business. Joanna Perr, MBABANE, SWAZILAND...
...major urban centers creating a mass of 900 million people who still tend to be very heavy savers. Huang suggests that China needs to act aggressively to boost rural incomes, by, for example, extending banking systems deeper into the countryside to give farmers better access to credit to start small businesses. MasterCard's Hedrick-Wong argues that China should also open up service industries now dominated by large, state-owned companies, such as finance, to allow new entrepreneurs to flourish, creating more jobs with higher wages...
...stupidest-one gets run into the ground: She has trouble with recipes, she loses her wheelchair, and, yes, she can’t tell her right from left. (Although this joke is handled with subtle invention, with Kurt and Santana having to correct the poor girl.) But we also start learning that she’s opinionated – “Bake sales are kind of bougie,” and actually caring, choosing to be friends with Becky rather than just taking advantage by copying her answers. We also loved the subtle ways the episode sets things...
...been a little over a week since 13 people were gunned down on the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood. The impact of the killings still reverberates from the base in the heart of Killeen, Texas. Now, the start of a glorious fall weekend promises this central Texan town a hint of normalcy, but true normal - weekend football, shopping, yard work and worship - will take longer to return, especially to the community's Muslims...
...exhibition called Disposal? Visitors were asked which artifacts they'd pitch, and, more vitally, for what reasons. The collections reviewers are now poring through hundreds of visitor feedback forms to learn how the public would go about thinning the university's collections. Armed with that information, they'll soon start the lengthy process of deciding what will stay or go. (The Agatha Christie basket should get a reprieve - officials admit they've grown quite fond of it.) (Read "On Show at Taipei's National Palace Museum...