Word: daltonics
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...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...
...back to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the lure of what was happening on the mainland proved irresistible. Two years ago he accepted an offer from U.S. hedge-fund manager James Rosenwald to set up shop in Shanghai, where Shu runs a China fund for Rosenwald's firm, Dalton Investments. He is also director of Dalton affiliate Grand River Investments, a private-equity firm that, among other things, invests in and manages high-end real estate in Shanghai, a city crawling with the new rich. Shu himself recently bought and has been refurbishing an elegant old house in central...
...someone in the U.S. not to speak some Spanish, even the hybrid Spanglish of the Southwest: "Como se llama your dog?" Signs appear in the store windows of Garden City, Kans., that say SE HABLA ESPANOL, and you can buy extremely fresh mangoes at bodegas all over that town. Dalton, Ga. (pop. 27,900), has three Spanish-language newspapers. Says longtime resident Edwin Mitchell, 77: "We're a border community--1,000 miles away from the border." Already we are living in a whole new world...
...name is Dalton Russell." These are the first words Clive Owen utters while starring directly into the camera in Spike Lee’s latest project, "Inside Man." He continues, "Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully." From this point on, Russell proceeds to manipulate the movie’s other characters, forcing them to do his bidding. Ultimately, Russell plans to pull of the "perfect bank robbery," hostages and police standoffs included...
...presents work by renowned artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and is scheduled to be on display through January. “I really want undergraduate students to know this gallery, to spend time in this gallery, and to suggest new exhibitions,” said Karen C. C. Dalton, assistant director of the Institute. Many in attendance expressed admiration for Gates’ leadership of the Institute. Rudenstine, who presented Gates with a first edition of Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk,” remarked that he “can?...