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...quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took his name, becoming Jamshedpur. Tata Steel introduced a series of worker benefits that would become common only much later in the West, such as the eight-hour working day in 1912, maternity benefits in 1928 and profit-sharing in 1934. Today Jamshedpur, with free housing, free hospitals and free schools, sports stadiums and clean streets, remains the envy of the country. In 2004, the U.N. chose it along with Melbourne and San Francisco...
...homeless.And it takes a certain personality to police the Harvard community, which HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano calls the “glass bubble.”An arresting personality, he says, so that no member of the force should find themselves sitting next to someone boring during their eight-hour shift.ALL IN THE FAMILYSix of the seven newbies gathered on a spring afternoon two weeks ago to reflect on the divergent paths each took to become a University officer.For Angela A. Kerr, one of two women in the group, wearing a black pant suit and an affable smile, becoming...
...eight-hour trek to upstate New York is a long, exhausting and desolate bus trip for a Crimson team when the season is on the line. With a loss or tie to the now-No. 10 Clarkson squad at Potsdam, N.Y. this past Saturday, the No. 8 Harvard women’s hockey team would possibly have had to make the journey back to the Golden Knights’ home next week for the opening round of the ECAC playoffs. But a quick shot from senior Jennifer Raimondi—netting her second crunch-time goal of the night?...
...home, closed its doors. "The environment here in Missouri is so hostile," its administrator told the local paper. With four abortion doctors left in the state, compared with 10 as recently as 1996, Lisa's closest alternative turned out to be the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, an eight-hour round trip by car. That meant Lisa, who has no car, not only had to ask a friend to drive her but also had to come up with an excuse for missing two days of work, because she was afraid to tell her boss the truth. Two weeks later...
...DIED. MAXIM MICHALIK, 2, Canadian-born schoolboy; after being shot during an eight-hour siege of an international school; in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Chea Sokhom, 23, a former driver for a South Korean restaurant owner, and three accomplices entered the school and took about 30 schoolchildren and teachers hostage. Cambodian police delivered $30,000 in ransom and a van per the four's demands, but they were overpowered by police and arrested before they could drive away. Police reported that Sokhom wanted to take revenge on his former employer, who he said had slapped him, by kidnapping...