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...unchanging China," which has been so damaging to foreign assessments of China's development. Such historians have looked for the deeper rhythms of economic growth and change, territorial expansion, developments in the arts, and environmental factors as examples of what we should be studying instead. Nonetheless dynasties have risen and fallen across well over three millenniums, and it is not completely absurd to depict the People's Republic as the latest manifestation of this historical phenomenon...
According to Keli Ballinger, who works in the health education office, demand for the massages has risen dramatically of late, prompting one therapist to take on an additional day of work...
...Giuliani has crippled the Civilian Review Board and supported the New York Police Department (NYPD) in all actions, at best ignoring and oftentimes supporting white supremacist officers in their destruction of civil rights. When the New York Civil Liberties Union found that the number of police brutality claims had risen 32 percent in one year during his tenure, Mayor Giuliani did not rush to scrutinize his army in blue, but blasted the report...
...Apple Computers Inc. and Stride Rite, a worn-out shoe company. But CalPERS also stepped on sneaker company Reebok. This is odd, given that Reebok's stock has doubled in 10 months and beaten the market averages handily in the past year. That's not all: Reebok shares have risen an average annual 29% since the bull market began in October 1990--outdistancing the average stock, which has risen just 16% a year. Granted, Reebok had some lean years. And next to fleet-footed Nike, its problems glowed in the dark. But management got back in training and since...
...many ways, children are better off today than they were in previous decades. They are healthier, their families have a higher income, the level of their mother's education (the most important determinant of a child's intelligence) has risen. But 1 out of every 10 children three years old and younger lives in "extreme poverty"--at or below 50% of the federal poverty level. And the well-being of many others is threatened by such social changes as the rise of single-parent households, the uneven quality of day care, the decline of communities and, some would argue...