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...Most of all, perhaps, Barshefsky was optimistic on account of the widespread consensus that renewed economic growth is vital to the region - and that free trade is the best and fastest way to that growth. This view got strong endorsement from Andrés Velasco, Sumitomo professor of international finance and development at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former adviser to Chile in free-trade talks with the U.S. "Growth is the key question facing Latin America today," Velasco said. Analyzing the ways that developing nations could achieve more rapid growth, he said a "great...
...scramjet?as different from a jet engine as a rocket was from the steam engine?and this will be its first flight. If all goes to plan, it should smash every world airplane record. It will make the fastest aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 (Mach 6.7), look turgid, and leave the fastest jet, the SR-71 Blackbird (Mach 3.2), in its stratospheric dust. Says Vince Rausch, director of the Hyper-X project: "It's the future. We're convinced of that. What we've not done yet is demonstrate to the people it's real. And that's what...
...Bears posted the third-fastest time ever by a women's crew team on the Charles River with a time of 6:28.1. The two fastest times belong to Radcliffe and B.U., who pulled times of 6.17.5 and 6.26.9, respectively, last year...
Cole placed fifth in the1,650-yard free, less than four seconds behind third-place Vendt. The swim places him as the fastest miler in Harvard history, if not the Eastern Conference, and was a new Harvard record (replacing that of Tim Martin...
...elevators for the claustrophobe. But such home-brew tactics are usually only stopgaps at best. Happily, safe and lasting phobia treatments are now at hand. In an era in which more and more emotional disorders are falling before the scythe of science, phobias are among the disorders falling fastest...