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...allowed the Crimson to advance from fifth to fourth in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association rankings. The top four teams receive preferential bracketing to determine which regattas they will sail next year...
Perhaps the riskiest bet he's making, however, is on domestic manufacturing. New Balance is the only major U.S. sneaker brand still manufacturing in America; most others have fled to China, Indonesia and Vietnam. Roughly 25% of New Balance shoes are assembled at five factories in New England and one in California owned by a foreign supplier. Over the past two years Davis has spent $14 million to upgrade a high-tech shoe plant down the road from his Boston office, and in 2001 he expanded his distribution center in the old mill town of Lawrence, Mass. Davis figures...
...shipping all his production overseas. He has increased his domestic payroll by 65% since 1995, adding some 500 blue collar jobs, but the percentage of New Balance shoes assembled in the U.S. has fallen by half as Davis has ramped up production in Asia and at a plant in England to keep up with sales...
Reasoning that caves would be the best places in which to find undisturbed fossils, team leaders Michael Morwood of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and R.P. Soejono from the Indonesian Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta decided to dig in Liang Bua, in the western part of the island. Limited excavations there had revealed evidence of human habitation...
...your doctor's medical judgment swayed by the freebies handed out by drug companies? Yes--and the problem is much worse than you realize, according to Dr. Jerome Kassirer, former editor in chief of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. In his latest book, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, he argues that so many medical experts accept money from pharmaceutical firms, it is nearly impossible at times to determine when advice is truly independent. Kassirer lays out the extent of the largesse--all of it legal--that drug companies lavish...