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...think cities like Cambridge and Boston with a lot of universities, students, that are more educated, are above average,” said Schrag. “Hopefully, this will spread...
...move to the suburbs is critical not just to the country's economic future, but also to its politics. As the retired city planner said, there is nothing more important to the central government than making sure economic growth continues, and that the benefits of that growth are spread widely. More than anything, this is what gives the communist leadership legitimacy. All across China, towns like New Songjiang are built on the backs of migrant workers - people who have moved from other provinces to earn better money as construction workers. An estimated 114 million workers in China now are migrants...
...emerged sometime in the fifteenth century, according to Watson. During this time, people first began to address each other as “Valentine” and send each other little gifts as tokens of their affection. Since that era, the tradition of mailing cards to loved ones gradually spread to Britain and eventually to the United States in the 1840s. By the late 1850s, Americans were buying 3 million pre-made Valentine cards a year. According to the Society of American Florists, 214 million roses are expected to be sold today, But, according to Jane M. Fredell...
...recent weeks, the myth that Beverage Authorization Teams (BAT) will be mandatory at House happy hours and Stein Clubs has spread across campus, electronically and otherwise...
...notion that the United States has both the responsibility and the right to ensure world peace, spread democracy, and punish violators of its own enlightened norms—in short, the right to intervene—is ludicrous. This perverse strategy has increased our nation’s enemies, while a prudent one would have reduced and divided them. To be effective, our foreign policy must be markedly less interventionist—the less interventionist, the better, and the safer Americans will be from terrorist attacks...