Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A few links

  • This or this is not(!) how Dallas was hoping to make news for hosting SuperBowl. I would have thought that the state of Chuck Norris would have had a better security plan for the pre-Superbowl activities!



   * Add more total jobs than any other U.S. region between 2010 and 2015. 
   * Be a top five U.S. region for new technology jobs created between 2010 and 2015.
   * Improve the Dallas ISD high school graduation rate from the current 67 percent to 80 percent by 2015.
   * Increase the percentage of Dallas region residents who hold advanced degrees from the current 10 percent to 15 percent. 


  • [Unrelated] I wonder what Shanghai's goals were 20 years ago. Whatever they were, the change is pretty dramatic:


Image is from here, and a hat tip to Marginal Revolution

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