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...efficient supply chain in a place where the roads are crowded and crumbling, the power constantly fails, the water is unsafe and the bureaucracy is complicated and burdensome? How do you transform a structure so deeply entrenched and with so many powerful political backers? How do you drag a wasteful, archaic system into the 21st century? The answer: detail by tiny detail...
...talking about art exhibitions, jazz bands, museums and alfresco dining. In fact, eating outdoors was mentioned no fewer than three times as Lee laid out the government's vision for a multibillion-dollar residential and commercial real estate project located near the downtown core. The Marina Bay development would transform the way people live and work in Singapore, the Minister Mentor said. Electric golf buggies will whiz by diners as they gaze from the water's edge upon the "sailing, boating, windsurfing and fishing." Singapore aspires to be "a tropical version" of New York, Paris and London...
...most intriguing qualities of extraordinary people is that they often don't feel that they are special. As they transform the lives of those around them, they say they are just doing what they have to do. Margaret Mikol is one such hero. In 1978, her daughter Julia was born with severe combined immunodeficiency, which required her to be kept in a completely sterile hospital environment--like the "boy in the bubble." When Julia was 3 months old, she had a bone-marrow transplant that left her with a functioning immune system but unable to breathe...
It’s hard to say whether or not the situation at the Quad was mishandled. The students were not asked to leave the grounds. The fact that a call was made is not surprising—typically reasonable Harvard students transform into prima donnas during exam time. That some students were asked to show IDs rubs some people the wrong way because of skin color—the claim being that they were scrutinized based on being black in a way that white students would not be. On the other hand, if a group of noisy white students...
...moneylenders and pushed banks to offer more farmers credit at reasonable rates. The government is also trying to encourage farmers to diversify into other crops and into dairy and poultry production. A little more than half the money in the rescue packages will go to irrigation projects that could transform the region in the long term but offer little relief in the near future-a bone of contention for many farmers who say they need government help...