LET THE VOLUNTEER-HUNT BEGIN！

The race to become an Olympic Volunteer starts now CHINA'S Olympic athletes hope to dazzle the nation with a record haul of medals at the Beijing Games in 2008, but another race to bring a smile to the host city has just commenced. This month sees the official     

MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL

BOTOX, RMB 500 per area, Liposuction, RMB 2,000 per area, Breast Augmentation, RMB 15,000," touts an Ameri- can plastic surgeon s ad to potential clients in Beijing, where he now operates. But since 2003, when a plain Chinese girl named Hao Lulu became a house-     

Use of State Police Services for Local Policing: The Case of New Jersey

All states in the New England and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States provide State Police services without charge to municipalities without full-time local police departments. Efficiency and equity issues have resulted from this tradition and the development of local police departments or shared departments across neighboring municipalities in rural and exurban areas has been discouraged. These problems will diminish in scope as municipalities receiving the State Police subsidy opt out of the program and adopt local policing. We examine this potential by estimating models of the municipal decision to use the State Police for local policing among New Jersey municipalities with less than 15,000 population. We find that the elasticities of the decision to use the State Police for local policing with respect to population and median family income to be −1.1 and −2.3, respectively. If recent income and population trends in New Jersey municipalities using the State Police continue, our upper range estimate is that about 20 of the 90 municipalities using the State Police will opt out of the program in the next decade.     

Liquidating a Chinese Business

With the global economic crisis hitting some businesses in China very hard as export sales dry up, now is a timely occasion to remind executives of affected businesses of their responsibilities when having to     

OVERSEAS, AND BACK

Chinese students are still heading overseas for education - but these days, they're also coming back. THE sea turtle may be one of the animal kingdoms' most endangered species, hut in its allegorical sense, it thrives. Each year, thousands of Chinese set out for distant lands on a hunt for knowledge, and well-worn trails lead to every top university on earth. Some never make it - they're snaffled up by massive competition, financial restraints or bureaucracy before they ever leave their shores. But those that do get through have different instincts than their predecessors - they