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...brand-name products. It's a microcosm of a divisive and peculiarly European debate: How low should retail prices be allowed to go? Predatory pricing - selling below cost to drive competitors out of business - is illegal everywhere, including in the U.S. But many European nations also heavily restrict or ban outright the promotions and discount prices that are standard practice in America, usually in the name of protecting consumers or competitors. Eight of the 15 E.U. members outlaw "loss leaders" - the sale of products below their cost price - a tactic designed to tempt consumers into the store. And discounts...
City officials said that although Cambridge will investigate any complaint about violations of the law, enforcement will be left up to the owners of each building that falls under the ban...
...Harvard, which must ban smoking in lecture halls, House common rooms, libraries, hallways, other public areas, and private offices that share air vents, the ban was heralded with the posting of thousands of signs across campus. House dining halls will permit smoking only in designated areas, but five plan to enforce the ban completely. Dudley House, Eliot, Kirkland, North and Winthrop will not allow smoking...
Other city councilors expressed satisfaction with Harvard's reaction to the ban...
...Although Ban is famous the world-over his pioneering structures like “Library of a Poet” (1991), which is made of cardboard columns, and the “Paper Arbor” (1989), which he designed for Japan’s Odawara Festival, he is also known for his humanitarian work. Ban’s lightweight, inexpensive and simple paper tube structures, dubbed “log cabins,” were used to create temporary housing in 1994 for Tutsi refugees from genocide in Rwanda and in 1995 for victims of the Kobe earthquake...