Monthly Archives: March 2012

Useful Library Apps for the iPad

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Guest Post by Carol Brown When’s the last time you thought, “Gee, I really miss scrolling around with a nice microfiche?” Between those and the Dewey decimal system, who’s got the time to mess with libraries anymore? Well, who else … Continue reading →

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China is Now More Urban Than Rural Beacause of Population Shift

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

City dwellers in China now outnumber rural dwellers for the first time as more people seek better economic opportunities, official figures show.The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that there were now 690.8m people – 51.3% of China’s total 1.3bn … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 6, 2012 by Rashid Faridi
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Urban Sprawl: India’s slumming ‘n’ shining

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Even as the glitz quotient goes up in the cities, with the number of shopping malls and multiplexes rapidly increasing, there is a less glamorous, but faster, growth of the urban slums. Today, one in every seven city dwellers lives in … Continue reading →

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