Yet for all the lip service that modern pedagogy pays to the precept that “all children can learn,” rare are the educators who believe this enough to push such students toward their full academic potential. Instead, educators come up with misguided …

Most women in Taiwan stay at hospitals for several days after delivering babies, while the more affluent ones choose to use the services of health care centers that charge around NT$100,000 for monthlong post-childbirth care for both of the mother and …

The 20-something Beijing lawyers and fans of South Korean pop idol Rain are part of a small but growing number of affluent Chinese for whom the craze for all things South Korean means flying to Seoul for the weekend to have wedding pictures taken …

While the pace of past economic progress seems agonizingly slow to us from our vantage point of mass affluence, the Age of Capitalism (starting in the 1700s) inaugurated a new era in which the pace of wealth production, and therefore, standards of …

Yet for all the lip service that modern pedagogy pays to the precept that “all children can learn,” rare are the educators who believe this enough to push such students toward their full academic potential. Instead, educators come up with misguided …

Among the Obamas' neighbors in exclusive and affluent Chilmark are actors, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, singer Carly Simon and prominent Washingtonian, Vernon Jordan. The president and his family are staying in a new rental after their old vacation …

The star of the opposition is 41-year-old Sergio Massa, the business-friendly mayor of Tigre, an affluent town known for its picturesque canals in the vote-heavy province of Buenos Aires. Polls show that Massa's candidates could be Sunday's biggest …

During the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war, a number of more affluent families would go above and beyond to find ways around the military service; be it through bribery, undergoing attempts to be smuggled out of the country, inventing false pretenses …

… service projects. Law student Joanne Yan, who last year assisted in health education and helped build playgrounds for refugee children in the Thailand-Myanmar border town of Mae Sot, came to appreciate the small things in life that people in …