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...wigs and hairpieces, to a red "80" hanging above Echigoya, the street's oldest store. The number refers to the years the kimono seller turned women's-clothing retailer has been in business. Mr. Tamura has worked the store for 30 of them. He says that styles on the floor are now skewed for a "younger look," because women in their 60s and 70s are more fashionable than those born during the Taisho period (1912-26). Female shoppers aren't necessarily looking for deals, says Tamura, but nothing in the store sells for more than about $100. Among the more...
...found in the 18 pieces brought by Arthur Ganson from his workshop at MIT in Boston. Ganson creates machines that are exquisitely engineered from low-tech materials to "express a feeling or a thought or a question." A wishbone hauling its own dream machine across the floor may not have a clear meaning, but that takes second place, he says, to "communicating the intensity and patience I put into getting the thing to walk." www.phaeno.de/mechanik.html
...recently, a key league matchup against Yale earlier this month saw the freshman make her first seven shots from the field en route to a game-high 14 points on the night. “She is an impact player for us—when she comes on the floor, I feel like we have another spark and she’ll lift us to a higher place,” said junior guard Niki Finelli, who hosted Markley on the freshman’s first recruiting trip to Cambridge. “She will continue to impact this team...
...campus recruiting for summer internships has come and nearly gone. Juniors, sophomores, and even some freshmen have made their way to the Faculty Club and the second floor of Bank of America, affectionately known as “The 1414,” for interviews. As usual, last year over 95 percent of companies recruiting at Harvard’s Office of Careers Services (OCS) were in finance or consulting—despite Harvard’s resistance to vocational courses (this is a liberal arts school, after all). But this policy has done little to curb the trend toward...
...United States, after a six-week long undercover investigation at the Hallmark/Westland slaughterhouse in Chino, California. The video, available on YouTube, shows “downers,” crippled cows too sick to even walk, being shoved by forklifts and dragged by chains towards the slaughter floor. Federal law bans slaughtering downers because of the health risks of eating diseased animals...