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...Reading, England, in a middle-class family of working actors, she now lives in New York City and won those Oscar nominations for playing three Americans, two Brits and a German). She's ambitious but cheerfully self-deflating, capable of glamour but also expressive of a kind of jolting common sense. She has a strong professional ethic, which she somehow balances with her domestic life (she and Mendes have a son, Joe, 5, and Winslet has a daughter, Mia, 8, from her first marriage - she takes both kids to school most days). And, cementing her status as an icon...
...wave of new hotels is reaching the market. Some 5,400 hotels will likely open globally in 2009 and 2010, the biggest surge in a decade, according to research firm Lodging Econometrics. UBS real estate analyst Eric Wong predicts a glut. As a result, revenue per available room - a common measure of hotel performance - is expected to fall in every major market in 2009. "Everybody was trying to grab a slice of the action," says Wong. "Now a lot may start to unravel...
...that in addition to pursuing personnel cuts, HMS and HRES custodial directors have reexamined the frequency with which offices and building spaces are cleaned. While highly visible areas such as labs and washrooms will continue to be cleaned each day, other locations—such as offices, stairwells, and common spaces—may only be cleaned twice a week or weekly...
This semester, it may become a whole lot more common to hear people commenting on that annoying bitch or hot hound in lecture. But with History of Science 137: “Dogs and How We Know Them,” a new course offered this semester, Professor Sarah Jansen is getting a pack of students drooling over the study of canines in the classroom. Jansen, whose course focuses on the role that dogs have played throughout history, is no newcomer to the study of four-legged animals. “The very first research paper that I ever wrote...
...That ruling definitively buries historical interpretations rooted in the post-war reconciliation period. The common view, which has endured for decades, held that it was the Nazis who mistreated and deported France's Jews, or forced their French collaborators to. "This is a very satisfying ruling for me, in that it legally refutes the notion that the Vichy regime and the acts it committed were entirely the responsibility of German occupiers," says Serge Klarsfeld, France's leading Holocaust historian and Nazi hunter, whose own father perished in German camps. "What this says in legal terms is that as much...