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That caution seems fitting for a relationship that while relatively warm, is being tested by a multitude of tricky issues. Atop Bush's agenda: the swelling U.S. trade deficit with China, which is more than $200 billion a year. Bush is expected to prod Hu to allow China's currency to rise, making U.S. goods cheaper, imports from China more expensive and the trade imbalance less lopsided...
Harvard entered its weekend road trip to New Haven as one of four teams, all with winning records, bunched atop the Red Rolfe Division, tied for the lead with Brown and one game clear of Yale and Dartmouth. The Crimson (14-13-1, 9-3 Ivy) moved one step closer to the ICS by splitting four games with the Bulldogs (21-14, 8-4 Ivy), remaining in first place after the Bears and Big Green also battled to a weekend stalemate...
...Strivers Row,” Baker describes Lionel Hampton’s band at the Savoy: “Tripping on out to the floor as the tempo built, the drum pounding atop the bass line, then the trombones circling back to the theme again and again in long, dizzying loops, working the dancers harder and harder...
...characterized by unseasonably dicey conditions, with wind gusts topping 25 MPH. Vermont, Bowdoin, and Tufts finished in third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively. WOMEN’S JOSEPH DUBLIN TROPHY The No. 10 women’s squad saw the third of the three weekend host teams finish atop the final order when they traveled to Medford, Mass. for the Joseph Dublin Trophy. The Jumbos were first in a two-division regatta that left the Crimson, which finished in eighth, a bit out of place thanks to some unfriendly conditions. “Overall it was kind...
...span for the San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge, for example--it is also plain that they need to do more. There are tens of thousands of older buildings in the Bay Area that do not meet modern earthquake standards, among them office and apartment buildings whose upper floors rest atop an unreinforced storefront or garage. In an earthquake, such "soft-story" buildings are likely to collapse or sustain damage so severe that no one will be able to live or work in them...