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Chinalco, China's huge metals company, recently spent $19.5 billion buying into global mining giant Rio Tinto (RTP). Rio needed the money to decrease its debt. There is speculation that China wanted to secure access to minerals. To that extent, the investment was a "strategic" one on China's part. The Australian government considered blocking the deal but did not. Perhaps debt-laden Rio made the case that it needed the money too much to help it through the economic downturn. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...proceedings of Forest Grove are being watched with intense concern by school administrators and the teachers union as well as children's advocates. Most advocates argue that families should have access to private schools when public schools cannot provide free and appropriate public education for a disabled child, but most also say that public funds should not be used to pay for residential schools like Mount Bachelor. Such programs, they say, are overly restrictive and unproven, and virtually all their students - who typically have depression, substance use, behavioral problems or ADHD - can be safely treated within the community...
Food, sleep and access to the outside world - sometimes even to the bathroom - were strictly controlled. Using intense role-playing, humiliation and physical experience, the seminars attempted to liberate people from victimhood by teaching them that they are ultimately responsible for everything that happens to them, including being a victim of child abuse or rape...
...bicycle sharing program will give Harvard students access to eight pedal-propelled vehicles this spring as part of a new program sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee that aims to raise awareness for alternative modes of transportation. Known as VeriFast Bicycles, the new program will station four bicycles each at Mather and Cabot Houses, and will allow students to check the bikes out—along with helmets, locks, and lights—from the superintendent’s office in each house, said Karen McKinnon ‘10, the chair of the Environmental Action Committee. The new program...
...weeks. Today comes a reminder that efforts to fight piracy online continues as well. A court in Stockholm on Friday found the four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said the court, out of valuable revenues...