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...city's Anping district, a cheek-by-jowl crowd converges on weekends to inhale the aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back. He rings a bell and awaits his next customer. But he looks in no hurry; in time, they will come...
...separate unit, Nike Golf, with its own staff and, by the happy accident of construction on Nike's main campus, its own rented building a mile from corporate headquarters. It would then take Nike Golf two years to produce something that Woods could use, the Tour Accuracy golf ball, which Woods promptly teed up to post victories at the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championships...
Future mobility. One of the main things young retirees overlook is what life will be like after they no longer drive. On average, women outlive their driving ability by 10 years, men by eight. The availability of mass transit and help from family come in handy...
...truth, Zimbabwe's opposition remains weak. The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.), peaked in 2002, when leader Morgan Tsvangirai polled 42% to Mugabe's 56% in presidential elections. Since then the anti-Mugabe movement has foundered because of infighting and intimidation. Mugabe has unleashed a campaign of beatings, mass arrests and shootings of his political opponents. On March 11, state police attacked a joint M.D.C.-Christian march. Tsvangirai was taken into custody and beaten savagely. Since 2000, Mugabe has also encouraged mobs to invade farms owned by the country's remaining white residents, who number...
...ease the burden of flying home for international students, and save Harvard a boatload in energy and staffing costs. A reformed calendar would also put all of Harvard’s schools on the same schedule. The opportunities for increased inter-faculty coordination and cooperation was one of the main reasons that an inter-faculty committee led by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53 in 2004 endorsed calendar reform by an 18 to 1 margin. Undergraduates would also benefit from the added coordination: cross-registration at other Harvard schools would be less of a burden...