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...York's culture industry also drives another of its largest economic sectors: tourism. The city welcomed a record 44 million visitors in 2006, who managed to leave behind $24 billion. A 2005 survey by the New York-based Alliance for the Arts found 7.5 million people visited primarily to get a culture fix. This helps to explain why the city's biggest tourist attraction is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which ushered in 4.6 million visitors in the year ended June 30, 2007. And also why, when the museum's longtime director, Philippe de Montebello, announced his retirement earlier this...
...York, of course, has long been thought of as a city of immigrants - of the Irish and the Italians, the Dominicans in Washington Heights, and the scores of other ethnicities that make up Gotham's mosaic. But increasingly, so is London. In 2006, according to the London Labour Force Survey, 31% of the city's residents had been born outside Britain; that compared with 34% of New Yorkers who hailed from outside the U.S. that year. Hong Kong, which barely existed 150 years ago, has always been a haven for migrants fleeing trouble in China. Even in these prosperous times...
...concentration.” This seems to bode well for the incipient conversational Dark Ages. But wait! This broad education “does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” Instead, the Core is about “approaches to knowledge.” It teaches students “what kinds of knowledge and what forms of inquiry exist in these areas, how different means of analysis are acquired, how they...
...could be budged by mass popular protests, efforts to get the people out in large enough numbers "won't work because people have been much more pacified in recent years." Some 72% of Hong Kongers find Beijing's timetable perfectly acceptable, according to a Chinese University of Hong Kong survey taken before the rally...
...kidding. Hong Kong's economy has been on a tear lately: bolstered by a booming mainland and the Hong Kong dollar's peg to a weakening U.S. currency, the Hang Seng Index gained 39% in 2007. A recent survey by TNS and Gallup International showed that Hong Kong people are the most optimistic in the world on the general outlook for 2008, with 71% expecting the coming year to be better than the last. All that prosperity is causing headaches for Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, who are finding it harder to make their cause relevant. In November...