Sorry for the long break between posts and the sudden group of them posted at once. Shanghai was faster paced and possibly even busier than the time we spent in Beijing. As of now we are in the Beijing airport after flying here from Shanghai. We have another two hours before we board, and then [...]
Our final two days were bittersweet. The majority of us were ready to go home, but at the same time disappointed to leave behind all that we had been able to learn. Thursday was a day to ourselves. Myself and few classmates decided to visit the Yuyuan Garden, an area just past the [...]
On Wednesday this week we headed out to the World Expo. It is something difficult to put into words simply because of its enormity. An entire section of Shanghai has been virtually fenced off for the six-month long world fair. It has its own bus line and ferry system to navigate through the Expo [...]
Shanghai is quite a place. There downtown area is referred to as The Bund. It has some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, and they are continuous for as far as the eye can see. It is perhaps most incredible by night. The only place I can compare the lights to is Las [...]
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You might not know it by the loss leaders featured in this week’s grill-happy supermarket fliers, but the price of humble hamburger meat is on the rise. So is the cost of coffee. J.M. Smucker Co. recently announced that prices for its Folgers and other coffee brands are going up 4 percent. And as we’ve reported before, other [...]
Glenn Howatt Glenn Howatt and Pam Louwagie of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis decided to check up on the state of Minnesota’s claims that it had corrected problems with overpayments to personal-care assistants in the Medicaid program. A 2009 legislative audit had found errors. And so did they — including one payment to an aide for 254 [...]
CNN has an interesting story today (Are you ready for the big internet crunch? ) on something that sounds like it will be a big deal to companies worldwide. As the story says: “Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet [...]
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