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...Undergraduate Council candidates gear up for the official start of campaigning this Sunday at 5:00 p.m., the council itself is rushing to prevent potential problems in the elections...
When the venerable outdoor-clothing maker Woolrich began selling online three years ago, it moved more of its signature red-and-black buffalo-plaid woolen hunting gear than ever before. Today its website is its fastest-growing sales channel, gaining rapidly on sales through catalogs and stores. But the firm, based in Woolrich, Pa., has stopped taking orders from abroad. Overseas online orders proved "nonprofitable," says Bruce Heggenstaller, vice president of operations and distribution. "We experienced credit-card fraud, mail fraud and hidden shipping and duty fees...
Cambridge’s proportional representation voting system, in which each candidate needs to receive only about 10 percent of the vote in order to win, does not help councillors gear up for a bigger election, Winters said...
...only the wood-chipping gear that exudes testosterone. Just visit the Waste News booth, where salesman David Martin invites attendees to maneuver a radio-controlled trash truck around a scaled-down city street. "We don't care if people want to knock the kids down," he says. "That's up to them." (He's joking, of course.) The odd part is, all this bluster shares airspace with a kind of quiet confidence--the kind that comes from an industry that's "recession resilient," says Bruce Parker, president of the Environmental Industry Associations, the industry trade group. The trash trade collected...
...River. Valanoor is a picture-book angler's haven. The waters are home to the silvery Mahseer fish. Known as hard fighters when hooked on lures or flies, the Mahseer (meaning "big head" or "big mouth") is the king of Indian river game. Pay a small fee, and rent gear from the Coorg Wildlife Society for about $10. On most days, you'll have a stretch of river to yourself?the locals have their own favorite hot spots where the setting may not be as nice but the angling is free...