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...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
...eighteen months since the Palestinian uprising began, the checkpoints have been flashpoints for violence. Unarmed Palestinian civilians have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers while trying to pass through them. As a result, the checkpoints have been frequent targets of Palestinian militiamen. But more than anything, the checkpoints serve as a constant reminder as to who are the masters and who are the subjects in the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians...
...Eighteen is not a number of turnovers we can normally create,” Dunphy said...
...Just as dead was any complacency on the Special Autonomous Region's part that it had solved its problems with bird flu. Health authorities worry about a repeat of 1997, when a strain of avian flu virus?H5N1?jumped directly from a bird to a human. Eighteen people were infected; six died. And the outbreak caused worldwide concern among health experts, who feared a possible global pandemic. Now, despite what is described as a first-class surveillance system for its poultry, Hong Kong is suffering its third lethal outbreak of bird flu in nearly five years. Flu experts...
Both Love and Epps have been working on gathering support from the Faculty. So far, eighteen Faculty members have said they would support such a committee...