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...Reports of such egregious abuses make trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses seem more perilous than gambling. But there's an even more fundamental problem: China's most promising companies tend to raise capital by going public in Hong Kong or New York, where tougher listing and reporting requirements make markets more trustworthy. But the majority of companies' hitting China's bourses are command-economy-era, state-owned enterprises (SOEs): many of them have limited growth prospects, while others, hopelessly uncompetitive, may be destined to fail...
...Harvard were upset last spring when Summers rejected a tenure recommendation for Marcyliena Morgan, a scholar of hip-hop in the African and African-American studies department, prompting her to leave for Stanford. Some Harvard women are worried that Summers' comments will make recruitment of top female faculty even tougher. Candidates for teaching, says physics professor Melissa Franklin, "do consider the feeling among other female faculty at the university...
...SELIG, baseball commissioner, after players agreed to tougher rules on the use of steroids and other drugs...
...transition to adulthood gets tougher the lower you go on the economic and educational ladder. Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan, found that for male workers ages 25 to 29 with only a high school diploma, the average wage declined 11% from 1975 to 2002. "When I graduated from high school, my classmates who didn't want to go to college could go to the Goodyear plant and buy a house and support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high...
...made for a tougher schedule with school,” he admits. “There was no time to procrastinate and put it off...I had a lot of papers and projects due on the 14th, so it made for a productive Christmas break...