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Turning Tutors into Millionaires: The “Celebrity Teachers” from Hong Kong
What if Lady Gaga helped your child to prepare for that next English test? Imagine hiring Justin Bieber for an hour of homework help. How much would they charge for one lesson? But in Hong Kong, it’s not that the stars are teaching. Here, the teachers themselves are the stars. They earn up to $1.5 million…
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“Please Turn Off the Internet. It Scares Us.”
The “ultimate gothic high tech figure”, Nicolas Sarkozy has put himself at the front of a Lost War: To Civilize the Internet. That’s right. The War on the Internet as we know it. What was it again that Bruce Sterling had said about him? You’re Nicolas Sarkozy, you’re brilliant, you’re poly-ethnic, you have no ideology….