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...Beijing's corridors of power, economic-policy makers are said to be watching in horror as a U.S.-led financial meltdown gathers force around the globe. According to the rapidly congealing conventional wisdom, China, ostensibly the world's economic superpower-in-waiting, is taking copious notes on how not to run a financial system...
...outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The other, a glass globe, holds a multistory re-creation of a rain forest. This globe in turn sits against a wide glass wall that looks onto the cultivated woodlands of Golden Gate Park, mingling views of rain forest and parkland until this very rational building seems just about overtaken by the natural world...
...Tufts, and Wellesley, have initiated sleep-awareness campaigns to enlighten students about the need for Z’s. With 24-hour libraries, time-consuming extracurriculars, and easy access to caffeine and study-aids, many college students have forgotten how to go to bed and need reminding. The Boston Globe reported that MIT has started a sleep class to help students unwind. A few miles away, Wellesley has begun to throw pajama parties. Harvard students are not immune to this epidemic of sleep deprivation, and here in Cambridge, the issue is coming to a head. However, a shortage of pajama...
...sworn to secrecy,” Glauber said. “And I’m not aware of anything having been leaked out. Any guesses would be based on external evidence.” Thomson Reuters has a successful prediction rate below 20 percent, according to The Boston Globe. The true accuracy of the predictions will not be known until the winners are announced Monday. Perhaps the professors are right to not be so preoccupied with the distinction. “There are curiously many requests for autographs and souvenirs,” said Glauber...
...express himself well in English,” he has communicated his cooking skills and passion for satisfying his customers through his dishes and through new specialties with which he constantly experiments. Kordsomboon said that the proudest moment in his cooking career was when a writer from The Boston Globe came to interview him, several months after Spice opened and just as the restaurant’s name was being spread through word of mouth. The interview, which was published in 2000, he said, was rewarding and he believed contributed to his restaurant’s reputation...