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When Dubai Ports World won shareholder approval to acquire one of Vancouver's busiest port facilities last month, nobody in Canada blinked. In fact, the proposed acquisition of the Centerm container terminal seemed to some Canadians like a match made in maritime heaven. "DP World is one of the globe's major port operators," says Anne McMullin of the Vancouver Port Authority, where the 28-hectare terminal is located. "It's a real vote of confidence in our port...
Once part of a secretive urban subculture that began in New York City in the 1970s, sneaker freaks like Thomas have come out of the closet, rising up not only across the U.S. but also around the rest of the globe, from Berlin to Tokyo. While many are driven by nostalgia for the classic Adidas or Pumas they wore as a kid, others amass the shoes not to wear but to save and admire like a stamp or baseball-card collection. "It's the thrill of the chase," says Carra Crehan, 26, who works at a New York City sneaker...
...archaeological sites date back that far, or nearly so, but scientists have found only about 50 skeletons of such antiquity, most of them fragmentary. Any new find can thus add crucial insight into the ongoing mystery of who first colonized the New World - the last corner of the globe to be populated by humans. Kennewick Man could cast some much needed light on the murky questions of when that epochal migration took place, where the first Americans originally came from and how they got here...
...suspicion landed in Monday’s Boston Globe, where columnist Alex Beam quoted professor Ruth R. Wisse as asking, “Was anti-Semitism the driving engine of this coup...
...playing an increasingly important role in world affairs. Aniruddha Patil, a Kennedy School student, said that “the main reason I came here was to see what facts impact foreign policy towards China, India, and Russia, and the session dealt with those topics and others around the globe very well.” Zoellick noted after the forum that he “greatly enjoyed it, especially meeting and speaking with students and people from the community...