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...making up for lost time quickly. Never has China's rapid rise been more evident than last week, when two big Chinese companies entered the auctions for two high-profile U.S. competitors: Haier, well known among college students as the maker of small refrigerators popular in dorm rooms, is teaming with a U.S. private-equity firm to bid for Maytag, the struggling appliance maker based in Iowa. And 19 years after getting his M.A. in petroleum engineering from U.S.C., Fu wants to own Unocal, once the parent of those Union 76 gas stations. The company he heads, China National Offshore...
According to Leverett House Superintendent Paul Hegarty, the thefts occurred while the building was accessible to many people, including Dorm Crew workers, plumbers, carpenters, and electricians, all of whom were preparing the building for summer occupancy...
...least one of the thefts occurred when a laptop was stolen from a student’s room whose door had been propped open by Dorm Crew, a team of students employed by the University to clean the dormitories...
...Dorm Crew worker, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Dorm Crew was only working in Leverett at the time of one of the thefts that occurred on the 22nd...
...saves more than half of it. It's a tough life, but Liu and her friends in the factory talk about their "coming out" from the villages as their chance to see the world. She shares a room with five other women, and at night in the dorm she and her friends test the freedoms of life away from their parents: wet towels snap, clusters of card players shriek and giggle. Liu doesn't expect to sew seams forever. In two years she hopes to save enough to study for a better job and move on. "Who knows," she says...