The Positec power-tool factory in Suzhou Industrial Park — about 50 miles outside Shanghai — is suffering a worker shortage; it lacks about 200 employees, or about 10 percent of the workforce. In an effort to attract workers, the factory has increased wages by 10 percent and is building new dorms and a canteen. Louisa Lim/NPR hide caption

Dalia Mogahed, one of 25 people tapped by President Obama to serve on an advisory council on faith-based issues. Mogahed may have met Obama only once, but to Muslims, she's a celebrity — thanks to the headscarf, or hijab, she wears every day. Coburn Dukehart/NPR hide caption