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...border looks like Petrapole, the channel for the vast majority of legal migration and one of the largest land crossings in Asia. More than 1,000 people pass through every day, most by bus and some on foot, along with about 400 commercial trucks. They walk through a metal gate several meters wide, accompanied by a bizarre set of rituals. The Indian bus lets its passengers off on one side of the checkpoint, and they board a bus owned by a partner company on the other. The luggage passes from the hands of Indian porters to their waiting Bangladeshi counterparts...
Swallen notes that such losses would only last during the first two years of the ban. During that time, new drugs would still receive FDA approval, and consumer advertising could begin once the moratorium is over. "The line would be frozen behind the gate for two years," Swallen says. "But the number of brands waiting in line will grow, and there will be the same flow into the market once the gate reopens. It's a onetime deferral...
...richest businessmen in American history. Along the way The Big Four also helped facilitate the growth of U.S. industrialism, not to mention modern American conservative politics. In his tome on the Big Four - Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson and H.L. Hunt - Burroughs, author of Barbarians at the Gate, offers a Hollywood-worthy story that's equal parts political investigative journalism and dramatic family history. Think oil wells gushing black crude hundreds of feet in the air, the pitfalls of billions in new money, and family scandals that include bigamy, ungrateful children, trust funds and professional sports teams...
...since the Crimson had not played in nearly three weeks because of final exams.“We’re coming together,” Stone said. “Everybody got some great opportunities. “We’re ready to come out of the gate with a lot of energy.”HARVARD 5, RPI 4Harvard’s contest against RPI on Saturday had all the makings of a blowout. The Crimson scored the first four goals of the game and built a 5-2 lead three minutes into the third period, putting...
Just as no war plan survives first contact with the enemy, even the smoothest sailing Presidential transition is destined to founder a bit in its first days at the White House. So while the new Obama Administration did jump out of the gate with major announcements on ethics guidelines, the planned closing of Gitmo, and a tightening of interrogation policies, it also endured its fair share of slip-ups. (See behind-the-scenes pictures of the Inauguration...