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Credit card issuers know that you, as a consumer, are more loyal to brands like Avon, Barnes & Noble and Amazon than you'll ever be to them. The first offer of a lower interest rate that lands in your mailbox, and you're likely to be off--which is why card companies are increasingly hitching their stars to other brands. To win your favor, they're offering to help you buy more of your favorite products. Is there a downside to these deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Plastic That Pays Back | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...Canal building requires tricky engineering over obstacles such as hills; the typical solution is a lock, which fills or empties to adjust water height. On Britain's southernmost canal?the 140-km Kennet and Avon, linking the town of Reading on the River Thames to the seaport of Bristol?travelers will encounter dozens of locks, often close together, as in the impressive flight of 16 built in 1810 to climb Caen Hill near Devizes, Wiltshire, pictured above. In traditional canal boats that rent from $1,160 a week, you can chug merrily along, do some lazy fishing and nature watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canal Plus | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike. Canal building requires tricky engineering over obstacles like hills; the typical solution is a lock, which fills or empties to adjust water height. On Britain's southernmost canal - the 140-km Kennet and Avon, linking the town of Reading on the Thames to the seaport of Bristol - travelers will encounter dozens of locks, often close together, as in the impressive flight of 16 built in 1810 to climb Caen Hill near Devizes, Wiltshire (pictured). In traditional canal boats that rent from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canal Plus | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

Among other tips, Wright pointed him to the fact that William Shakespeare and Robert Harvard lived within blocks of each other in Stratford-on-Avon...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing All the Readers to the Yard | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

Harvard’s significant stock holdings—in companies from consumer products manufacturer Avon to aerospace firm Lockheed Martin—entitle the University to powerful votes on a wide range of proxy issues which set financial and social policy within corporations...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Proxy Votes, Harvard Abstains on Warming | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

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