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...promising a leisured lifestyle to the city's middle class. But in the late '90s, Shanghai's building boom went bust. With occupancy rates plummeting to a dismal 35% in some areas, real-estate developers panicked. So did the city government, which had counted on a buoyant real-estate sector. Desperate, city planners offered a raft of incentives for local companies and foreign banks to relocate to Pudong. Then, in Shanghai proper, they began tearing down old row houses in one of the city's few remaining historic neighborhoods to make way for a giant 230,000 sq m park...
...Measured debate, says Belair, will help to save what privacy advocates and health care providers most want from these regulations. "Health information is very personal, and can be stigmatizing, and patients are right to be cautious about making it available," he says. "On the other hand, the health care sector needs to be able to use this information to deliver care and keep costs down. So there are very compelling arguments on both sides...
...replaced all of its student loans with grants--ensuring that students will no longer graduate burdened by a mountain of debt. Princeton's move will both entice more people to attend the school and open up career options to graduating seniors instead of coercing them into high-paying private-sector jobs straight out of college...
...think the end is in sight. The companies coming out with these bad earnings reports are starting to say, "Look, there's nothing wrong with our company. These are economic problems, pure and simple." The weakness in the tech sector is across the board, and everybody seems to realize that there's no good news coming from anybody. Pretty soon, we're going to have discounted all the bad news, which clears the way for some kind of value-based turnaround...
...question and answer session after the hour-long talk, one audience member asked for Collins' thoughts on genetic research in the private sector, specifically mentioning Celera Genomics, a private company that has been engaged in a much-publicized competition with Collins' project to sequence and interpret the genome...