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...life he is sure will one day be his. Last year, the 29-year-old told a snakehead, as traffickers who help smuggle Chinese abroad are known, that he was ready. Many of his friends and family members have already gone. Now it is his turn. He wants to follow his older brother to England, where he's heard that the need for cheap labor is so great that the police don't crack down on illegal immigration. Little Lin, who doesn't want his full name used, knows the journey will take months and cost at least...
...sports where Nike was well established, but the other three represented worlds where Nike was all but unknown: the Brazilian soccer team, the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and a teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow up Michael Jordan and the enormously successful Air Jordan line of footwear. When the company announced that it had signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with Woods, the reaction was swift--Nike stock fell 5%. Says Bob Wood, one of the officials in that room: "They thought we had overpaid...
...also risk intervention by Iraq's neighbors, such as Turkey, Iran and Syria, which all have restive Kurdish minorities of their own. Turkey, for instance, would likely shut the borders with Kurdistan and stop all flights coming in from over its airspace. Of all the problems that would follow, the most ironic could be that a newly independent oil-rich Kurdistan, without any refineries or pipelines, would run out of gas. Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the Kurdish government's office of foreign relations, told me that declaring independence would be "political suicide...
...Zanzini, a furniture maker in rural Săo Paulo, managers found that even employees with a high school education could not interpret graphs or follow the manuals they needed to manufacture furniture. The company set aside a room on its shop floor to use as an impromptu classroom whenever a worker on a shift needs help. "It is common to see people who can't read or write or fill in forms," says Zanzini's human-resources director, Leandro Mangili. "They have finished secondary school, but they can't add without a calculator." The most recent study by the Organization...
...midterm for one of my Cores, and skipped the midterm for another, I still couldn’t bring myself to get help. I knew something was wrong, but I kept deluding myself into thinking that I could and would fix my academics, and improved mental health would follow miraculously. On April 12, my freshman dean contacted me after one of my teaching fellows, whom I had never met, emailed the freshman dean’s office about his phantom student. I was embarrassed at failing but relieved that my pain was no longer a secret, so I went...