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...four-nation consortium as a model of European industrial cooperation. Today Airbus workers are demonstrating, and financial losses are mounting as a result of disastrous snafus that have delayed its flagship new plane. Cooperation? Major private shareholders of parent company EADS can't dump their shares fast enough. And to complicate matters, jousting among its government shareholders--exacerbated by the French presidential elections--is casting doubt on a restructuring plan that includes 10,000 job cuts across Europe, a measure agreed upon only after months of board wrangling...
...Fast-forward 50 years. An Irish rock star reads the treaty with the enthusiasm a child has for cold peas but does uncover what I think technocrats might call poetry. Not much of it--just a turn of phrase here and there. Like Article 177, which summons the signatories to foster "the sustainable economic and social development of the developing countries and more particularly the most disadvantaged among them" and calls for a "campaign against poverty in the developing countries." Not exactly Thomas Jefferson but a glimpse of the kind of vision that might bind...
...main goal of the Florida trip for Harvard is to prepare for the fast-approaching Ivy League season. The Crimson is still trying to figure out its best lineup, and there are questions regarding the pitching staff as well...
...Wiki Search Project?-Irvin Moise Carlin, Chula Vista, Calif. Current search engines lack transparency. All the software we're doing is open source, and all the algorithms will be published. [Entering the search market] is pretty intimidating, but I try to have fun. In the current issue of Fast Company, right below my face it says, "Google's Worst Nightmare." And I think, God, I should really get to work on that search engine. [Laughs.] (See the 25 best blogs...
...graduation day, I have to go to New York very fast because that evening, I’m performing at the NYC Ballet in honor of Lincoln Kirstein. I’ll get my diploma, grab a box lunch, and head to New York. After that, I’ll dance for another year, and I’m running the arts festival and my school. I want to start bridging these worlds where I can use the skills and interests that have been awakened by my time here...