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...mind. But when would-be Eton knock-off schools in China tried to pass themselves[an error occurred while processing this directive] off as affiliates, the original summoned its lawyers to send threatening letters to protect its name. That's not because Eton plans to develop its blue-chip brand abroad. But some of its rivals are doing just that. In the past decade, Harrow and Dulwich, two public (that is, fee-paying) schools in the London area with big reputations, have opened five franchises overseas between them - primary and secondary schools in China and Thailand that share their names...
...female college activist groups go, the Network of Enlightened Women, or NeW, is a very different breed. They don't distribute condoms on the Quad or march for a woman's right to choose. Instead, they bake chocolate chip cookies and protest campus productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, a controversial play about female sexuality that conservatives say degrades women and glorifies rape...
...MacBook continues Apple's move towards an exclusively Intel-based lineup, and while a lot of software now runs directly on the new chip (for instance, Logitech's mouse and keyboard drivers), there are two major hold-outs, Adobe and Microsoft. You can use most of their programs on the new Macs, but they run only with help from Apple's invisible Rosetta software translator. My wife, an avid user of Office apps on her new employer-issued MacBook Pro, says that when she has several Office programs running simultaneously, she notices delays in typing and other subtle sluggishness...
...food-allergy reactions come from inadvertently ingesting the offending ingredient. But though the Food and Drug Administration requires manufacturers to list all potential allergens, from nuts to eggs to fish, they don't always comply. In March, a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based cookie company had to recall some chocolate-chip cookies because it had neglected to mention that peanuts were an ingredient, and its customers were getting sick...
...lack of that bargaining chip doesn't seem to daunt the new union members, given the toughness of their everyday task. They're ready to do whatever it takes, says executive director Greg Devereux, "to get better care for these kids...