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...huge state-owned aluminum company - in Rio Tinto, the world's second largest mining company, as well as a couple of other, smaller deals in the mining sector. But opposition in Australia has been increasing. There are TV ads now running that in effect say, "China will not allow us to buy one of their mines, so why should they be allowed to buy ours?" (See pictures of Australia rescuing its koalas...
...committee searches for new classes to incorporate into its program next year, professors worry that loopholes in the new curriculum’s structure may allow for specialized courses that deviate from the ideal of a general education. “The structure is the same, of course,” said Gross, “because institutions are comfortable with what they’re used...
...part of a University-wide trend to share intellectual property, Harvard Kennedy School faculty voted overwhelmingly last week to allow open access for all scholarly articles written by faculty. The change—which took effect immediately after a vote at a faculty meeting last Tuesday—means that all faculty will permit the Kennedy School to distribute their articles through DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) repository, which is an online database currently being developed by the Office for Scholarly Communication. This makes the Kennedy School the third Harvard school to allow open access for its journals...
...League. Mills was extremely careful with her rehabilitation. She met religiously with her strength and conditioning trainers to slowly apply more and more force on her knee to bring her leg back to pristine form.While the team would kick 1000 yards for practice, coach Morawski would only allow Mills to swim 400 yards so that she wouldn’t overexert the fragile joint.Morawski knew it was tough for such a competitive athlete to take baby steps to reach the level she wanted, but the coach felt Mills was taking the right steps in the right direction...
...course, P-I subscribers will automatically begin receiving its longtime rival paper, the Seattle Times on Wednesday. But even that consolation may not last long. "It's not a certainty that the P-I's departure will allow the Times to continue, much less flourish," says Richman, the business reporter. For example, as many as 20,000 of the P-I's 117,000 subscribers already received both papers. Local economists say the Times' own position is dire, pointing to its two-year pension freeze and the laying off of roughly a quarter of its staff in the past year...