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...position will deal with Harvard’s response to federal laws and regulations and will work with the Office of Sponsored Research and the General Counsel to coordinate policy on such matters as human subject protections, stem cell regulation compliance, and technology export laws...
...quiet residential side street. It serves splendid food from central Vietnam, a new sophistication in itself. Ten years ago, our host could not find a job. His wife kept the family afloat by running a small day-care center. Today, he operates a brisk business raising orchids for export. Other Vietnamese friends of ours have similar hopeful stories...
...executives would describe Russia as "no risk," and the mixture of apprehension and opportunism with which Dixons is entering the market perfectly captures Western investors' feelings about the country's business climate. The Russian economy is powering ahead, propelled by the high price of oil, its key export. Growth exceeded 7% in each of the past two years and is expected to be about 6% this year, more than triple the euro-zone average. Many Russians are still poor and live in wretched conditions, but on the whole, household income is up and, especially in big cities like Moscow...
...Australia's recent economic growth owes much to China. It is essentially China's demand for resources that has lifted Australia's terms of trade to a 30-year high. China is already our second largest export market, and the growth is not just in minerals and energy. Some estimates suggest that by 2010, a million Chinese tourists may be visiting Australia each year. China is already Australia's largest source of overseas students. This structural complementarity between the two economies offers huge potential for closer trade ties...
...peaceful rise." Will it revert to traditional Middle Kingdom ways of thinking about its neighbors and thereby generate a backlash? It is not just relations between Beijing and Washington that Australia may have to navigate skillfully, but relations between Beijing and Tokyo (still by far Australia's largest export market) as well. To deal with the challenges ahead, Australian leaders will need all their resources of strategic foresight, diplomatic skill and political cunning...