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Tucked away on a tree-lined Cambridge side street, the Maria L. Baldwin School regularly attracts some of the greater Boston area’s newest fashion talent. On select Sundays each month, a few splashy sandwich boards along Massachusetts Avenue alert pedestrians to the Design Hive. Located in the school’s auditorium, the self-proclaimed “retail experience,” and “urban street market” showcases the work of independent designers and various artisans. Just beyond the public school’s front doors, crayon-scribbled artwork mingles with arrow...
...everyone is worried. Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, says tariffs in Asia have already come down so significantly that the additional benefits of FTAs don't give Asian firms that much of an edge over foreign rivals. Some analysts also believe political and economic rivalries place high hurdles in the path of a true Asia trade bloc. "The notion that there is going to be a Fortress Asia is really not correct," says Vinod Aggarwal, director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center at the University of California, Berkeley...
...JetBlue, however, insists it's looking long-term. The airline acknowledges that the pass could cut into profits. "That's a possibility," says company spokesman Bryan Baldwin. "But I think we've already seen the upside. The buzz and excitement we've created have far exceeded our expectations. We look at it as just more than dollars and cents." For example, customers are flocking to the JetBlue route map: hits jumped 700% after the promotion was announced, on Aug. 12. Even flyers who ultimately passed on the offer became more familiar with JetBlue. "People are on the website, sitting around...
...since James Baldwin has a black gay writer achieved the success of E. Lynn Harris. While exploring the boundaries and taboos of sexuality, Harris--who died on July 23 at 54--turned the black community and the literary world upside down, with 10 consecutive New York Times best sellers and more than 4 million copies of his work in print. Unlike Baldwin, Harris wrote for the masses, introducing readers to a fabulous world teeming with prosperous but morally conflicted black characters...
...only the beauty of childbirth. Until the placenta came out. There are many normal human reactions to seeing a placenta, ranging from screaming to vomiting to warding it off with a cross. For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin. It's what your liver would look like if it got into an accident on the autobahn with one of those aliens from Mars Attacks! and their bloody carcasses threw jellyfish at each other...