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These deals--unlike recent debacles in which the China National Offshore Oil Corp. failed in an attempt to buy Unocal and Dubai Ports World bought and then had to give up control of several U.S. ports--appear to have profiles low enough to avoid political opposition. Make no mistake, though: foreign investors' presence in the U.S. is only going to grow...
...workers, fresh from the Mexican state of Nayarít, are met and ministered to by a cadre of social and health workers, a federal agent from the Department of Labor, even a union organizer. In all, they spend almost four hours filling out paperwork, watching movies about how to avoid pesticide sickness and getting a set of no-nonsense rules (if you fight, you're fired; don't use the fire extinguisher to cool your beer) from the North Carolina Growers Association, the organization that brought them from Mexico. They are then driven to farms scattered across the state, where...
...Deep breath, America: Paula Abdul has broken her nose by (stay with us) falling to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua, Tulip. She still appeared on the American Idol finale, chipped cartilage and all. On the TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, Abdul's supportive co-host Simon Cowell inquired solicitously, "How's the dog?" SCORE...
With 10,000 faculty members and affiliates, Harvard Medical School must keep clear-cut policies to avoid being overwhelmed with exemption requests, Dale says. At smaller schools, “it’s much easier to form committees to oversee these kinds of protocols,” according to Kasper...
...still challenges ahead for the Safra Center and other ethics institutes. “The biggest challenges are still what they’ve always been,” Thompson said. “In general, people say they want to talk about ethics, but they really want to avoid the subject.” Both Thompson and Arthur I. Applbaum, a professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School, who will direct the center on an interim basis next year, said one of the center’s greatest contributions has been to bring together scholars...