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...global demand for Chinese toys, German cars and Japanese electronics has dived, container trade has been hit hard as well, with some 200 vessels now lying idle and many more likely to join them when their current contracts are complete. Container traffic between Asia and Europe is shrinking for the first time on record, according to some estimates. Shipping a container from Hong Kong to Rotterdam now costs just a few hundred dollars, down from more than $2,500 in late...
...budget out of a deficit and expanding the campus in Cambridge during his formative tenure. Knowles died at his home in Cambridge on April 4, 2008 at the age of 72 after a long battle with prostate cancer. In 1974, the former Royal Air Force officer left England to join Harvard's chemistry department, eventually taking a top post as dean—a position he would later take up again in 2006. He had once said "Deans don’t make an imprint any more than gardeners trample on flower beds," but for all the modesty...
Well, why not, says the mild-mannered, somewhat unworldly writer. And if, eventually, he is required to join the SS and start doing other chores for the Nazis, what of it? At first there is nothing onerous in his duties - and they carry obvious benefits. Lots of swell parties are part of the deal. And he is appointed head of his department at the university. Best of all, his blossoming ego permits him to undertake an affair with one of his students (Jodie Whittaker), which leads him to a divorce from his distracted wife and then into a new, happy...
Lander will join a host of prominent scientists Obama has named as scientific advisers, including former National Institute of Health director Harold E. Varmus and Harvard climate and energy professor John P. Holdren, who will also be co-chairs on the council...
...occurred in recent years. In June 2008, Bosnia signed a crucial agreement with the E.U., putting it on the road to membership. Most importantly, the country's armed forces were recently unified and, unlike Bosnia's political apparatus, put under central command. The military is taking steps to join NATO. "People do talk of another war, but I don't think it can really happen again", says Muharem Bazdulj, a prominent Sarajevo-based writer and a columnist for the daily Oslobodjenje newspaper. "The fact that the military, of all institutions, just successfully underwent drastic reform is a proof of that...