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There's a big problem, of course. As Chayes says, "expanding in an active theater of war is an increasingly tricky notion." At the moment, Arghand relies on the generosity of the Canadian army, which lets Chayes use its post office for shipping. A commercial air-freight service, she says, would give a huge boost to the growing number of Afghan traders who want to export. It's a classic catch-22: freight companies shy away from Afghanistan because it's so unstable, but stability will come only when Afghanistan's economy improves, which will require more investment, such...
...winter’s coming on and when it’s getting cold.” This year, $200 each were awarded to about 300 freshman through the fund, said Donahue. Student representatives from the north had different reactions to the first flurries. Co-Prime Minister of the Canadian Club Xiaodi Wu ’09 said his fellow countrymen were unimpressed. “I’ve seen snow, and this isn’t snow. This is God’s dandruff,” he said. Kenny W. McKinley ’08, co-president...
...portrayed countries themselves—“The Mikado” opened for the first time in Japan in the summer of 1946, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at the height of American military domination. The leads of the play were all American, Canadian and British, and the audience was entirely GI. Joseph Raben, an editor of translations at the time in Tokyo, called the performance an “impudent but magnificent gesture, a tribute to their culture in a sense, but also an assertion of the Americans’ right to do as they pleased...
First, of course, there's hardly any certainty that the dollar will keep falling. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Economy.com, believes the free-fall might be slowing: "I think the dollar is near a bottom via the Euro, pound and Canadian dollar. Foreign exchange markets are already pricing in a very weak if not recessionary U.S. economy and substantial Fed easing." And while he thinks the dollar still has further to go in relation to the Chinese Yuan and other Asian currencies - he predicts another 5% to 7.5% until early in the next decade, when he thinks...
...wear protective headgear. Since its inception in 2002, a San Diego-based company, Full 90, has sold some 200,000 soft, padded headbands to soccer players. A recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that the band reduced concussion risk among a group of Canadian adolescent soccer players. But some experts worry that the bands may spur more reckless on-field behavior. "I fear that kids will put these things on their heads and feel invincible," says Guskiewicz...