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Welcome to China's China, a land of gargantuan urban centers beyond Shanghai and Beijing where the growth potential is giving consumer-products makers palpitations. "If you want to be No. 1 in China, you have to be successful in every city in China," says Ian Chapman-Banks, chief of marketing for North Asia at Motorola...
...pitched, however, small wheels are a plus, delivering a lower center of gravity and a stabler ride. What's more, the low profile means it's easier to hop on and off or to balance at stoplights, and the light weight makes accelerating easier. Finally, even the cleverest urban thief won't be able to pinch your ride if you can just fold it up and take it inside when you reach your destination...
...would like to do Teach for America at some point. Long term, I’d enjoy getting into teaching at a high school level or something in the education system. Or something in an urban setting, or maybe at some point getting into politics...
Finally, NCLB needs to give families a genuine choice of school—public or private, urban or suburban—if their child’s current school fails to measure up under the new accountability system. Currently, NCLB gives families only the choice of an alternative public school within the same school district, a choice so meaningless it has been exercised by less than one percent of all eligible parents...
...black identity, especially now that Harvard’s black students come from every corner of the African Diaspora and level of the socioeconomic ladder. Celebrating Black History Month is no longer as simple as paying homage to a few Black American leaders or addressing the problems of urban America, because those issues are no longer of universal significance within the black community, as many feel unable to relate to a “shared” experience of historical struggle. At Harvard, an increasing number of students are wealthy elites, whose immense privilege has insulated them from suffering...