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Hooman Majd reveals some facts about the Islamic republic that could surprise Americans.
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Dickson Despommier explains that vertical farming would constitute a closed cycle, thus solving many of the water and waste related challenges of modern agricultural methods.
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Technologies used by arid countries could be used in space, says Dickson Despommier.
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Chinese capital markets are about as developed as Wall Street was when Jack Perkowski started there in 1973.
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Thanks to the Olympics, Chinese manufacturers are more attuned to creating environmentally-friendly cars than their foreign counterparts.
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The major tenets of Jack Perkowski’s company have been in place since day one.
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Perkowski sees newcomer American companies all making the same mistakes in China.
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As was once the case in the U.S., becoming big in China will soon mean becoming big on the global scale.
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If you see diesel truck on the road in China, it most likely came from Perkowski’s company.
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Despite Beijing’s apparent officiousness, control of China is not centralized.
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“A billion people in China wake up everyday trying to make everything they use cheaper and more convenient” thus prices fall all over the world, according to Jack Perkowski.
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This is China’s 30th year of reform. There are visible signs of wealth all over the country. Everyone is feeling optimistic. Everyone is focusing on education.
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“Everybody in China is actually from Missouri,” says Jack Perkowski. They are hard workers; they are skeptical of optimistic outsiders, but they respect success.
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“Mr China” explains how things are never what they seem in Chinese business.
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In the beginning, Perkowski found “New China Managers.” Now he has the luxury of pulling from his own pool of talented employees.
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From his perch on Wall Street, Jack Perkowski foresaw the emergence of long-term trends that drew him to China. Now others try to follow his example.
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The painter sees a wealth of art, but Sugimoto and the German school of photography really stand out.
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The painter compares the art world, then and now.
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Remaining distanced from the profit motive should help artists make it through the recession, says the painter.
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Ross Bleckner on unleashing your inner artist.