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...look a bit safer for whales. While the largest inhabitants of the cetacean nation mind their own business in the oceans' depths, their human supporters are hailing the International Whaling Commission's shift toward a solidly conservationist agenda. At a Berlin conference last week, the IWC - once a bastion of an industry now worth only about $50 million (compared to whale-related tourism's estimated $1.5 billion) - agreed for the first time to establish a conservation committee. Its task: to advise the IWC on potential threats to marine mammals from pollution, sonar gear, ships, global warming - even whale watching itself...
Gender and feminism are deeply rooted in the culture of Radcliffe, which was founded in 1879 as a bastion of female undergraduate education...
...just a couple of market-share points from passing Chrysler, the smallest of the Big Three. Though it is narrowing the quality gap, Detroit today squeezes almost all its earnings out of "light trucks," an industry category that includes SUVs and pickups. But the transplants are attacking that bastion. Toyota is adding capacity for its full-size pickup, the Tundra, with a new plant set to open in 2006 in San Antonio, Texas. And later this month, Nissan will inaugurate a new plant (now in test mode) in Canton, Miss., where it will build the Armada full-size...
...weeded out, inefficient firms go bankrupt and better goods get produced. But not everybody likes competition. Bureaucracies often fight to defend substandard products by insulating themselves from competition. At Harvard, the age-old impulse to avoid competition has just taken an ironic twist: members of the Economics Department, that bastion of free-market fundamentalism, voted on April 9 to prevent one of their own from offering an alternative...
...says. After a 1992 fire destroyed the Redoutensaal in the nearby Hofburg Palace, the Albertina's management realized they needed a safe place to store the museum's irreplaceable collection. As a result, a 3,000-sq-m state-of-the-art storage area reclaimed from underneath the bastion - a part of the old city fortifications on which the palace stands - will house the artworks under carefully controlled environmental conditions. When completed, a computerized system will be able to locate and retrieve any of the more than 1.5 million items within 60 seconds. Another impressive feature is a four-story...