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...Habitat volunteers now come this way. In Cluj, the companies insist they're not in it for p.r. points alone: they view it as a tough bonding session with concrete business returns. "This is team building with meaning," says Ian Railton, Italy-based head of Whirlpool's Ikea account team. The 14 people sweating it out in the Romanian sun certainly share an incentive to work well together. Normally, these designers, project managers, salesmen and marketers manage a multimillion-dollar relationship between Ikea and Whirlpool, the retail chain's exclusive supplier of kitchen appliances. Such strategic partnerships require cohesion...
...Ripples of Change in China Sorrow and rage grew in equal measure as I read Hannah Beech's unsettling account of the Chinese government's persecution of legal activist Chen Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth...
...though light was created at the Big Bang, there was darkness before stars formed. Likewise, the first chapter of Genesis states that God created light before he created the stars, and separated light from darkness in the interim. Not too many years ago, some people said the Bible's account of the beginning could not be true because light comes from stars, which could not have been created after light was. Now your article has shown how it could be true. Science has once again caught up with the Bible. Sara Borden Maple Valley, Washington...
...building the framework to invest in the technologies itself, in order to “take those early stage technologies and move them a little further along to a stage where there is commercial interest,” Halvorsen said. The report notes that the survey data did not account for the fact that not all startups grow into successful large companies. Halvorsen emphasized that the Office of Technology Development is concerned with the long-term possibilities for success of each of its ventures. “We won’t just do a license to do a license...
...course lottery took into account class year, the student’s need to satisfy the Literature and Arts B requirement, and a written statement of interest, Field said...