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Samuel Houshower ’03 is a social studies concentrator in Dudley House. He is conducting research in Northern Ireland...
...court held that a company registered anywhere in the E.U. should receive equal treatment with local companies. Götz-Sebastian Hök, an attorney specializing in European law, says the ruling may cause companies to pick up and move to countries with the lowest taxes, like Ireland. "I think a lot of companies will think about going elsewhere," Hök says. "We will have a big competition for the best place for doing business in Europe." In an effort to head off the problem, Germany and a number of other E.U. countries have been trying to garner...
...just past six on the cold morning of Sept. 29 when the dark green Mitsubishi Pajero off-roader pulled up at the back of Russborough House, a Palladian mansion outside the town of Blessington in County Wicklow, Ireland. At least three men wearing balaclavas and hooded sweatshirts affixed a plank to the back of the vehicle to turn it into a makeshift battering ram, then ran it in reverse up some steps and into one of the great windows of the 250-year-old house, shattering the glass and the shutters behind. Eleven paintings were hanging on the walls...
...chronic problem of high-density seafood farms. One of the most damaging organisms is the sea louse, which breeds by the millions in the vicinity of captive salmon. In 1989 Peter Mantle, who owns a wild salmon and sea-trout sport fishery in Delphi on the west coast of Ireland, discovered that young trout returning to his river from the ocean were covered with lice that were boring through the trouts' skin and feasting on their flesh. The sea lice were breeding near newly installed salmon farms in the inlet fed by his river. By the time the salmon farmers...
...Most, that is, except Hutchison (which, for its part, spent a hefty $10 billion for all of its European licenses). The company is moving ahead with its plan to build and introduce the world's first multinational 3G network, with operations in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It has introduced a confident new brand name, "3," along with a snazzy logo and enough empowerment-through-technology hype to make you think it's 1999. "What we are doing is without precedent," says Hutchison 3G spokesman Matt Peacock in London...