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What they won’t see is the stagnation outside the urban wonderland, particularly the ever-widening urban-rural gap that threatens the core of China’s social structure. Despite the country’s progress in the last two decades, it cannot reach its full economic potential until it bridges this disparity...
...credited with turning around the ailing Chrysler business in the U.S., will be hoping he can work a similar feat with Daimler. A new, streamlined strategy would help. "Instead of continuing to meddle with too many products in too many markets, they need to concentrate on their core business," says Rolf Drees, an analyst with asset management company Union Investment. "The new CEO may achieve just that." Though Schrempp is on his way out, DaimlerChrysler's numbers are looking up. The group's net profits were up 28% to 3737 million last quarter, while sales grew 4% to 338.4 billion...
...specifically mentioned as examples two Core courses related to engineering have been designed to appeal widely to undergraduates. The courses, which focus on the interplay of engineering and society, are Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” taught by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68, and Science A-52, “Energy, Environment and Industrial Development,” co-taught by McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy and Butler Professor of Environmental Studies Michael B. McElroy...
Unfortunately, the core problem that lay at the heart of the Challenger tragedy applies to the Columbia tragedy as well. That core problem is the space shuttle itself. For 20 years, the American space program has been wedded to a space-shuttle system that is too expensive, too risky, too big for most of the ways it is used, with budgets that suck up funds that could be invested in a modern system that would make space flight cheaper and safer. The space shuttle is impressive in technical terms, but in financial terms and safety terms no project has done...
...Renewal and redemption, after all, are at the core of what Hiroshima, 60 years on, represents. Sunao Tsuboi, at 80, knows that better than most. Four or five years after the end of the war, he fell in love with a woman whose parents refused to let her marry him because he was a victim of the A-bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young...