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...news is that in India, you get first-class resorts built on a Third World foundation. Substandard road networks and power grids still place much of India deep in the developing world. While the government talks about revamping its decrepit state airlines and airports, it has yet to take action. "Appalling, desperate," is how one Western airline executive describes the first impression visitors tend to have of India's airports. Even so, she says, there is sufficient passenger demand to triple the number of flights into the country. But for decades, plans to open new routes and increase flights have...
Last night the Black Students Association, Concilio Latino and the Harvard Republican Club sponsored a debate about school choice. Whether it involves interdistrict transfer, vouchers or charter schools, “school choice” is increasingly popular with minority parents otherwise unable to escape decrepit government schools in Cleveland, Detroit and other large cities. While the 14 years since Milwaukee first attempted a voucher system have seen such milestones as the Supreme Court’s 2002 ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which stated that vouchers could be used at religious schools, and this year?...
...Usher endless hordes of tourists in front of a decrepit old statue and glibly encourage them to rub its urine-encrusted toe for good luck...
...Budget Office predicts the shield will cost. (Of course, estimates such as these also usually fall woefully short of the final cost.) And now, with Russia’s new missile technology—which a rogue state could acquire through theft or bribery from Russia’s decrepit military infrastructure—hitting the right missile will get even harder because incoming missiles will be able to change direction mid-flight to avoid a U.S. interceptor...
...about $4,700, making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls and a view overlooking the decrepit former bomb factory. "We can get by on the slimmest profits...