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Craig Kelley, another challenger and a former Marine, called Harvard’s arrangement a “lousy way to do business,” and said that if elected, he would consider ways to expand Harvard’s tax bill...
...Fake Watch Worldwide, the Burberry plaid is a favorite of hipsters and ladies who lunch; in China, where pirated versions are ubiquitous, it's worn by just about everyone. Which might explain why Chinese copycats are trying to expand their market overseas. Last week Hong Kong customs made its largest ever piracy bust, netting more than 150,000 high-grade Burberry fakes, worth about $8 million, bound for Japan. Eleven people were arrested, including the two suspected ringleaders, who allegedly ran the syndicate out of a legitimate children's clothing store. For now, it seems, Japanese will have...
...Environmentalists see less complement than insult?and some fear that this rival plan may deliver a fatal blow to the Kyoto Protocol. "The new pact will attempt to lure in other nations from the Asia-Pacific region and expand its influence," says Choi Seung Kook, deputy chief of the Green Korea environmental group, "until it is big enough to ignore the Kyoto treaty." Environmentalists point out that the agreement announced in Vientiane spells out no concrete goals to reduce global warming, sets no emissions targets for countries, and can't even be called a pact?the six countries merely endorsed...
Harvard’s push to expand its Division of Engineering and Applied Science (DEAS), begun in 2001, falls directly in line with recommendations released this past June by the National Academy of Engineering...
...were badly injured people all around, he recalls, "in the river, on the ground, everywhere." Many of the people who weren't killed instantly staggered aimlessly through the fires that raged throughout the wreckage. Tsuboi recalls one man with a chest wound so deep, you could see his lungs expand and contract with every breath he took...