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...truth, much of the loot from Empress Dou's tomb--and the vast majority from countless other sites across Asia--is still missing. In India, Superintendent Shrivastava is delighted to have nabbed the nation's top smuggler. But months after the momentous arrest, he has tracked down only a fraction of the relics Ghia is believed to have looted over the past three decades. Since news of the arrest was made public, three collectors have written to the police, offering to return stolen items they say they purchased in good faith. But most of the stolen treasures, still hidden inside...
...talking about the corrugated container, better known as the cardboard box. How could we even connect to the Internet without the cardboard boxes that brought us our computers? And how would those myriad goods we order reach us without cardboard boxes? Although e-commerce accounts for only a fraction of cardboard-box sales, it is a very fast-growing fraction and likely a big part of cardboard's future. The reason is plain: 10 copies of a best seller can be shipped from a publisher to a bookstore in a single box. But 10 individuals buying the book from Amazon...
That still leaves unanswered why the Iraqis would have unilaterally destroyed their most potent arms. One theory, advanced by the U.N., is that the regime used these exercises as a cover for retaining a fraction of their stores. The idea is that they would destroy quantities of weapons (creating a disposal site and eyewitnesses, if not written records) and claim to have got rid of everything yet actually hold on to some of it. The Mukhabarat captain concedes that scientists kept small amounts of VX and mustard gas for future experiments. "I saw it myself, several times," he says...
This weekly service, though, is only a fraction of her duties as program coordinator. Project Health has a three-fold mission of “Service Mentorship and Reflection,” so in addition to her shift, Morse attends two reflection sessions per week—one for all of Project Health’s coordinators, and one specifically for the Women’s Resource Center’s volunteers. Morse admits that it is sometimes hard to stay in touch with her cases. “There is a lot in your hands...
What can potentially be most treacherous in this transition is that Harvard’s money, or more specifically a fraction of the students’ room fees, is lining UNICCO’s pockets. Part of Harvard’s expenses associated with the cleaning of bathrooms by the outside janitors ends up in the hands of UNICCO’s management—not Harvard student workers and captains. Moreover, UNICCO’s poor record in matters of wages and benefits has frequently incurred the ire of its workers and labor advocates, as evinced by last October?...