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...territory, to ensure control over supplies; instead, Russia is building the main line to Nakhodka on the Pacific, from where it can sell to Japan, the U.S. and Korea, with just a branch to China. Perhaps the greatest potential deal the two could strike is on manpower. Russia's male life expectancy has slumped to 58. It faces a declining population and will need millions of new workers to keep its economy chugging. China could easily supply them. But Russia, says Guan Guihai, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, "remains concerned that the Chinese population...
...both genders. At Adidas' Tokyo launch for Stella McCartney, Japanese men - typically smaller than men in the West - raced to buy the women's clothes for themselves, according to Nelly Kennedy, head of global lifestyle p.r. at Adidas. The company now hopes a new line by Porsche will satisfy male consumers. Of course, there are limits; few luxury brands will want to associate with mass-appeal sports like soccer - especially when players misbehave. But for those trying to promote an image of elegance, graceful sports will continue to beckon. Says David Lauren of his company's Wimbledon sponsorship: "It feels...
Note also that every single one of the writers to bear the title has been both white and male. Whose generation are they speaking for, exactly? "When people say generation, they're usually not including, say, people who live in Africa, Asia and people without bank accounts," Coupland says tartly. "It's an exclusionary and delusional concept...
...didn’t have a problem balancing work [and] life discovered there was yet this other problem,” Hopkins added, pointing to her own research which shows that female professors at MIT, including those with tenure, have historically received smaller offices and less support than their male colleagues. As mothers compose a greater percentage of the workforce, employers nation-wide are adjusting to demands for more flexible schedules and leave time. But Whyte said that looking to childcare reform as the primary solution to the dearth of senior women faculty underestimates other historical forces still at work...
...Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval, the sisters' own personal and sexual lives come into focus. Kate becomes repelled by her sister's flirtatious way with older men though she learns herself just how easy it is to seduce a male companion. Little else is easy in these interesting times. Revolution seems to float in the humid air, and a minister warns the girls that "Hong Kong is facing sinister times." Bombs kill innocent civilians. The girls enter into sexual liaisons. Secret pacts are made. Borders are crossed. In Hong Kong, the heat...