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...junta evidently believed a lavish new airport would transform Mandalay into a regional business hub. However, most goods still arrive in the city by the usual overland route. Mandalay is the terminus of the Burma Road, its trading lifeline to neighboring China, and the main reason the economy has plodded along without ever breaking down catastrophically (so far). Another reason is the nation's staggering agricultural wealth...
...sleek and modern (think ceramic bathtubs but in a boudoir), she hung velvet curtains in the rooms and draped the club in an Arts and Crafts palette of peacock blue, teal and green. The result was a modern playground for New York City's rich or connected and a hub for the international media, art and film crowd. "I like spaces that plow their own course, irrespective of the fashion," Crawford says. "I wanted to make Soho House feel spontaneous, cozy, sexy, uplifting and relaxed. The paradox I like to work with is combining something extremely modern with something familiar...
...choose from services at six different times and 10 different venues around the campus--some with live preachers, some on closed-circuit TV--offering a variety of worship and music styles ranging from quiet hymns in an intimate setting to a tent gathering with roof-raising gospel singing. The hub is the cavernous worship center. Take away the 3,200 seats, the six-piece band, the suspended wooden cross and the giant video screens, and it could be a 747 airplane hangar. In booths outside, ministry leaders promote church workshops on marriage enhancement, parenting, budget planning and addiction recovery...
...Central Bank, and University President Lawrence H. Summers will be debating the merits and demerits of the European Monetary Union in the Yenching Auditorium on Thursday, March 25 at 4 p.m. You’re invited to this and other events. Please join us in making the CES the hub of new ways of thinking about European studies at Harvard. There never was a better time—on the other side of the Atlantic or in Cambridge, Mass...
...other private institutions stepping in to help fill the funding void left by the Bush administration. Indeed, a recent press release confirmed that the University, which has already started to make stem-cell lines available to researchers across the country, is planning to open a stem-cell research hub at the new campus in Allston. University President Lawrence H. Summers is positioning Harvard at the forefront of the most exciting development in biological research—which is great for the University community and, ultimately, humanity...