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...laying out, dozing off listening to John Mayer on your iPod, and the next minute, you look up and a homeless man is hovering over you jerking off. Seriously, it’s the Square—it’s probably happened. We go to school in an urban environment; bikinis just don’t belong here...
...Solution: Don’t run to Urban Outfitters in a desperate attempt to look indie and definitely do not make a day trip to the CambridgeSide Galleria in search of baggy pants and fitteds. This is still Harvard, and HUPD will probably remove you anyway if you’re not wearing Nantucket Reds and Top Siders...
That's the countryside. But even this remote western region hasn't avoided China's crush of urbanization, and Jiegu, the seat of Yushu County, was pummeled by the quake. As herders have moved off the land, towns like Jiegu have swollen, with workers living in quickly built apartment blocks on the outskirts. The urban area of Jiegu houses a population of about 100,000 and is expanding. More than 85% of the houses in Jiegu collapsed in the quake, according to the state-run Xinhua news service. The official death toll has reached 617, state media reported, with...
...good day, it takes 12 hours by bus to get to Yushu from the provincial capital, Xining, which is itself about a 1,000-mile drive from the national capital of Beijing. As you climb south and west across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, urban sprawl cedes to empty steppe. Just north of Tibet, the road opens into a small town tucked in a river valley. Its main street is lined with vendors selling yak butter and tea; its low, brown hills are lined with rows of brightly colored courtyard homes. Those homes - and the town - now lie in ruin...
...four or five investments that, when put together, have the potential to close the achievement gap,” Fryer said. “Incentives could be one of [them], I don’t know yet. This is the first kind of large scale experiment in urban schools on incentives, and I hope it’s not the last...