They are acting more like their developed country counterparts.

FORBES: Five New Trends of Chinese Consumers

As the first of its kind, the company said the Delabole local tariff was its "blueprint" and would be replicated across the country as it developed more wind farms.

BBC: Delabole wind farm households offered discount tariff

Because it is located in built-up west London, Heathrow already makes more people miserable than just about any other big developed-country airport.

ECONOMIST: Business travel

The sect, formed more than a year ago, has developed a following across the country and in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

BBC: Burundi map

Real estate prices in upscale beachfront property in Rio de Janeiro, for example, is more expensive than it is in Miami, a city in a developed country with all the bells and whistles.

FORBES: For Miami Real Estate, Better To Be A Foreigner

My own experience suggests that China does take the environment seriously, and in a number of areas, the country is actually well ahead of those in the more developed parts of the world.

FORBES: How Green is China?

The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.

WSJ: China to Make State Firms Turn Over More Profits

Right now there is a paradox: We spend more than any industrialized country, but our health is fair to middling among other developed nations.

FORBES: Elizabeth H. Bradley

King claims that in the last eight years more than 60 million people have visited BBH-developed exhibits, which travel around the country and the world to venues like the Smithsonian Institution and the Science Place in Dallas.

FORBES: From Couture to Critters

Identical twins Chandra and Leigh Watson have developed a style of sweet, soulful indie-folk that does more than nod to alt-country influences.

NPR: The Watson Twins On World Cafe