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...think Chinese actors are restricted to kung fu movies in order to succeed in Hollywood? Zhou Ting, CHANGSHA, CHINA At this moment, I believe yes. In Hollywood, they have so many good actors, but if you're talking about action, there's nobody. We're not talking about fake, special-effect action stars like Superman and Batman. Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan...
When Cherry A. Murray was applying to college, she says her older brother, then a physics graduate student at MIT, told her, “There’s no way you can succeed in physics, and definitely not at MIT.” So she went to MIT. And majored in physics.Today she is a world-renowned physicist, president of the American Physical Society, and the incoming Dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a role she assumes at time of great financial turmoil for Harvard’s schools.But colleagues say Murray?...
Will it be the next Facebook? The next Blogger, Digg or Twitter? Who knows? It almost goes without saying that many more start-ups fail than succeed. Reid Hoffman, founder and CEO of the job-networking site LinkedIn and an angel investor in many start-ups (including Facebook), says, "The biggest problem facing any website is distribution." In a world where it's so easy to start a company, how will anyone find yours...
...suspicious of outsiders, the country bristled under the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the early 1990s and the Ethiopia occupation over the past few years. "The sea and the land are the same," says Abdinaser Biyokulule, a pirate recruiter in the pirate haven of Bossaso. "Foreign troops did not succeed on land, so they will not succeed in the sea either...
...enough to have good policies in Beijing; the work has to happen in the provinces and the communities where 60% of the nation actually lives. "Unless you understand how you can translate the policies into the realities of where the people are living, you will not succeed," he says. "There's an opportunity here to make sure 50 million people don't become infected...