Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Aug 27, 2012

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(1) Christina Larson, China's 'Leftover Ladies' Are Anything But.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... es-are-anything-but

(a) Excerpt in the window of print: In 1982, just 5 percent of urban Chinese women in their 20s were single; now 27 percent are
(b) summary in text: Urban women are deferring marriage--or not even bothering
(c) Note:
(i) WANG Feng  王丰, Director of Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy  清华-布鲁金斯公共政策研究中心
http://www.brookings.edu/zh-cn/about/centers/brookings-tsinghua

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(ii) hypergamy (n; First Known Use 1883):
"marriage into an equal or higher caste or social group"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypergamy   
(iii) The report mentions "LIN Yinhe" twice. Of course we know she is surnamed LI.
(iv) The report states, "In March, China’s top online dating portal, Jiayuan.com, released a report based on its 85,498-person survey titled Confessions of a Leftover Lady."  
世纪佳缘/ 中国男女婚恋观系列调查之“剩女”的自白书
(v) Contrast an earlier report by the same author:
Christina Larson, The Startling Plight of China's Leftover Ladies. China's men far outnumber women. So why is it so hard to find a good husband?  Foreign Policy, May/June 2012.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/art ... a_s_leftover_ladies


(2) Matthew Boyle, Unilever Wants to Be America's Big Dipper.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... icas-ice-cream-king
(summer in text: The global ice cream leader uses its Magnum bar to spur US sales)

Quote:

"Lately, though, Americans have begun to shift toward European-style single servings on sticks or in cones. So-called frozen novelties now account for 21.2 percent of the US. market, according to researcher Euromonitor International, and that share is growing.

"First introduced in 1989, the [Magnum] bars are sold in 50 countries—they’re Europe’s top ice cream brand—but only recently arrived in the US.


(3) Bonnie Cao, The Mournful Call of the Nest less Shanghai Male.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... g-rules-for-singles
(summary in text: Curbs on property purchases by unmarried singles flout tradition)