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...weapons from their business. In the words of Owen Kean of the CMA's communications department, the chemical industry "does not make weapons. Companies are very interested in cutting the link to weapons-making." Industry executives further worry that member-nations will hide behind their provisions in order to erect other trade barriers with the United States; this problem would clearly not crop up were we to ratify...
Lachenmeyer found that nearly everyone in the shops and restaurants on Church Street in Burlington remembered the proud bearded man in greasy, lice-ridden clothes who sat erect on park benches and somehow survived the coldest winter in local history. Police called him "Chuck" and said he arrived in 1992. He was comfortably dressed at first. But his disability checks stopped coming because of bureaucratic fumbling, and he became tattered and filthy...
...plan. And there was this added benefit: the developers were obligated to cough up $241 million to the city and state whether or not they ever built. That kitty allowed planners to start condemning properties and evicting what they saw as undesirable tenants. Developers still have the right to erect their office towers--ground has already been broken on a building that will house the Conde Nast magazine empire--but the Johnson-Burgee designs have been chucked...
...impractical as undergraduates so long as we are all the more practical in our career choices. Oxford acknowledges a certain amount of specialization initially, but is trying to fight the tide of careerism in the long-run. Strangely enough, the school that allows undergraduates to study business refuses to erect an edifice designated exclusively for that topic, and the school that discourages pre-professionalism among undergraduates is home to a "B-school" with the most majestic of campuses...
...shelf. Kirsten Bakis' supposition in Lives of the Monster Dogs (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 291 pages; $23) is that in the year 2008, a tribe of large dogs, surgically and genetically altered, with prosthetic hands and voice boxes and with the intelligence of humans, arrives in Manhattan. The dogs walk erect, using canes, and wear costumes patterned after military uniforms and ball gowns of 19th century Prussia...