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...China Fund, a University-wide initiative to support teaching and research in and about China, has already been able to place between 20 and 25 Harvard undergraduates in internships with Chinese companies through the Shanghai office, said Todd S. Washburn, assistant provost for international affairs. The Fund will also "host occasional social and academic outings, seminars, and get-togethers to allow students to interact with local businesspeople, and community members," he said...
Mexico City will also host a Harvard office in the near future under the aegis of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Dominguez said...
...daffiness shines through on Hollywood Green, which is basically Access Hollywood edited down to the stars' red-carpet prattling about their hemp wardrobes and chemical-free nurseries. (I have waited in vain for a segment on organic Botox and biodegradable implants.) Justin Timberlake builds an eco-friendly golf course. Host Maria Menounos enlists an "eco-designer" to redo her summer cabana. "Green is beautiful!" she declares. Sure it is, if you have a freaking cabana and a personal decorator...
...Richard Shea, took over Nathan's publicity. They increased the hot dog contest's attendance from the hundreds to the thousands, and other restaurants jumped on the trend. The Sheas founded the International Federation of Competitive Eating (since retitled Major League Eating) to oversee the events. They now host 80 to 100 competitions a year, featuring everything from deep fried asparagus to tiramisu. The top events are broadcast live on ESPN; last spring, Nintendo announced a competitive eating video game for the Wii, although it has yet to be released...
...just about pulling in cash. As part of its $400 million strategy to break into the world's top 50 universities by 2015, the University of Warwick - ranked 57th, according to the U.K. Times Higher Education Supplement list, as it approaches its 50th birthday - plans to permanently host branches of three or four overseas research universities on its site in the heart of England. Nigel Thrift, Warwick's vice-chancellor, won't say which universities it has in its sights; negotiations with North American and Asian institutions are ongoing. But its "International Quarter," he says, will pursue "proper, long-lasting...