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With global warming, we have no more snow. With minimum wage laws, great grandpa’s work habits can only be emulated by workers in Cambodia. And with the onset of the online revolution, you can get the news from tomorrow’s newspaper today. (Which, by the way, would be a great premise for a TV show...
...coach. When he started out, most kids were 12 when they were picked by talent scouts for municipal-level sports academies. "Today, children must start, at the very latest, at six years old," he says. "Otherwise it's too late." To increase the level of play, China lowered the minimum age at municipal table-tennis competitions from 10 years old to 8 a decade ago. And even younger kids are often allowed to compete, if they are good enough. "Personally, I feel that kids shouldn't begin training so young," says Wu. "But we have no choice...
...relatively wealthy countries, the demand is urgent. In Britain, an average farmer earns somewhere between $18,000 and $27,000 a year, according to Philip Clarke, the Europe editor of Farmers Weekly magazine. If you take the long working hours into account, Clarke adds, that's below the minimum wage. Not surprisingly, a 2002 study by Exeter University found that about 60% of farms were engaged in some form of diversification, ranging from contracting out labor and machinery to running a bed-and-breakfast. "It used to be a question of farmers' wives offering rooms on the side...
...Panty hose infused with microcapsules of purported anticellulite ingredients are available from Donna Karan, L'Eggs and Hanes. But read the fine print: the hose need to be worn five days a week for a minimum of eight weeks before any results can be seen, and even then they promise only to reduce the appearance of cellulite, not eliminate it. After almost two months, our testers found no noticeable changes to their dimply thighs...
...Billionaires themselves can be a bit fuzzy on their unironic identity when it goes beyond their talking points on class-based issues like health care, the minimum wage and war profiteering. Members are prohibited from explicitly endorsing any presidential candidate out of character—and indeed, when the group was founded on a smaller level in 2000 it called itself “Billionaires for Bush or Gore...