New York Times, Feb 5, 2012

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(1) Tamar Lewin, Taking More Seats on Campus, Foreigners Also Pay the Freight; A boom in overseas recruting that is 'something akin to the gold rush (front page)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/0 ... at-us-colleges.html
("All told, the number of undergraduates from China alone has soared to 57,000 from 10,000 five years ago. At the University of Washington, 11 percent of the nearly 5,800 freshmen [of whom 18% come from abroad] are from China")

Note:
(a) This report does not talk about graduate students at all.
(b) ebonics (n; blend of ebony and phonics; First Known Use 1973; noun plural but singular in construction)
"BLACK ENGLISH"
www.m-w.com
(c) clicker (n): "REMOTE CONTROL"

(2) Andrew Jacobs, In Beijing's Building Frenzy, Even an 'Immovable Cultural Relic' Is Not Safe; The razing of a designated historic site incites an outrage
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/0 ... -stirs-outrage.html
("for seven years in the 1930s, it [the house located at 24 Beizongbu Hutong] sheltered one of modern China’s most fabled couples, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin")

Note:
(a) debonair (adj; Middle English debonere, from Anglo-French deboneire, from de bon aire of good family or nature): "SUAVE, URBANE"
(b) pastiche (n; French, from Italian pasticcio):
"1: a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work; also : such stylistic imitation
2a : a musical, literary, or artistic composition made up of selections from different works : POTPOURRI"

(3) Christina Romer, Do Manufacturing Need Special Treatment? (Business section)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/0 ... -economic-view.html

My comment:
(a) Her answer is no. Read only the first 3, the section with heading "Income Distribution," and the last paragraph.
(b) Christina Romer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Romer
(a former Chair [2009-2010] of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration)  


(4) Jim Yardley, Away Game; China loves basketball. But as American players--and the NBA itself--have discovered, the country has its own rules. New York Times Magazine, Feb 5, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/magazine/NBA-in-China.html

My comment: I do not read sports, so I did not read it.