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...overlook the Huangpu River from the Nissin Shipping Building, built in 1921. They were the first ventures of their kind to grace the Bund since its prerevolutionary heyday. "At the time, everyone thought I was crazy to open a fine-dining restaurant there," Garnaut recalls, and the venture's rapid failure was predicted. Instead, scores of restaurants, bars and clubs followed in her wake, and the Bund is once again one of the most famous entertainment strips on the planet. (See the top 10 food trends...
...often does rapid transformation work? In 2008, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Education Department's research arm, published a guide to turning around low-performing schools that noted that "the research base on effective strategies ... is sparse." In other words, taxpayers are betting billions of dollars on what essentially remains a crapshoot...
...corporate world. Many a failing company has been transformed by new leadership or some sort of reorganization. An education consultancy published a report last year that pointed to Continental Airlines and the New York City Police Department as entities that in the mid-1990s were able to effect "rapid U-turns from the brink of doom to stellar success." (Hence Domino's Pizza's new ad campaign, the Pizza Turnaround, which highlights its efforts to make its core product taste less like cardboard.) (See TIME's education covers...
...four-point introduction covers all the bases for potential shared interests in fewer than 20 seconds. No other icebreaker is nearly as efficient. By hitting all of the main talking points in such rapid succession, the awkward time when neither person has little to say is mitigated. Before long, both people know enough about the other person to produce makeshift conversation, which can lead to anything from mere acquaintance to best friend status...
...rapid rise of Tea Partyism has derailed much of the Democratic agenda in Washington, cuing a chorus of intramural recriminations and setting off a string of congressional retirements. With Brown delivering the 41st vote to sustain a threatened Republican filibuster in the Senate, health care reform may be on ice until next year. Another signature Obama initiative, capping carbon emissions, is snowed under. The House blames the Senate, the Senate blames the House, and both chambers point accusing fingers at the White House. Obama, meanwhile, is struggling to find a tone of voice that resonates in Tea Party America, alternating...