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...agencies and the military an advantage by allowing a hardened building from Day One of a crisis," says Brewin. "From field research in Uganda, we observed that a usable building always has value in the reconstruction phase after a disaster." The pair are developing plans to market their product. Demand shouldn't be an issue. Relief agencies in Africa have already expressed a need for such shelters. Disaster, both human and natural, is unceasing...
Rather, he said, AMOD uses several policies in tandem to decrease both the demand for and supply of alcohol...
...Walt Disney Co., the parent company of the ABC network, cut a deal with iTunes to sell episodes of shows such as Lost and Desperate Housewives for $1.99 apiece. A few weeks later CBS and NBC Universal struck deals to sell shows, hours after their airing, via video on demand (VOD) for 99¢ a pop from cable company Comcast and satellite company DirecTV, respectively. (The CBS service debuts in January; NBC's, early next year...
...shuttle buses needed this year after reviewing the number of students who rode the shuttles two years ago. But students who did not buy their tickets in advance said that the UC should have surveyed students this year to come up with a more accurate measure of the demand for tickets. According to Huber, while the CLC would have liked to order more shuttles after selling out on Wednesday, an attempt to charter two last minute shuttles to Yale two years ago caused great coordination problems and inconvenience. “We didn’t want to risk...
...narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them long and hard...