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...least twice a year by the local board of health. When occasional issues arise, they are addressed immediately and cleared through a re-inspection process. Among many other safety measures, HUDS employees working in the kitchen have ready access to two different kinds of heavy-duty vinyl gloves (cotton lined and unlined) that are designed to protect them when working with high temperature machines. The Need for BalanceAs a tax-exempt, non-profit institution, Harvard has a responsibility to manage its financial resources prudently. Our tuition-paying students and their families, our donors and research sponsors, and our host communities...
...puts him under tremendous financial strain: he makes his living as a professional mortician but receives no payment for burying unclaimed bodies, which he sees as a religious duty. He estimates that each body he buries costs him $20, including the price of the body bag, the coarse white cotton shroud, gravediggers' fees, transportation costs and the grave itself. Recently, he's taken to burying two bodies in each grave...
...raft of recycling projects, such as Queensland's Western Corridor Recycled Water scheme-which, as the Southern Hemisphere's largest such pipeline, will supply power stations with about 110 million liters of recycled water a day from 2008-promise huge water savings. But while spraying such water on cotton crops or golf courses has widespread support, the notion of pouring it into a glass still makes many squirm...
...Chinese junks and smaller sampans. Terrified refugees were preparing once more to flee before the surging tide of communism. Nevertheless, the great majority of Chinese were becoming more reconciled to the prospects of communist rule. The cagey Reds had switched to a "soft" line ... In Chengchow, ... two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
...history is not on Appleton's side. Since 1879, one company, the family-run papermaker Crane & Co., has produced virtually all U.S. currency paper, an intricate blend of cotton, linen and ever evolving security features, at two facilities in Dalton, Mass. "Ours is an intimate, long working relationship with the Treasury Department," says Lansing Crane, CEO and great-great-great-grandson of the company's founder. That relationship appears as secure as ever, despite challenges from competitors and lawmakers that have been mounting since 2001. Having one firm control the currency supply isn't just anticompetitive, it's a security...