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...Even with the knee thing,” he adds, alluding to the hyper-extended joint with which he skated earlier this season. “It wasn’t that big of an injury. So I don’t think it’s that I’ve played through things. It’s that I’ve been lucky not to get injured...
...rival, Airbus, the European commercial-airplane manufacturer [Jan. 24]: As Airbus rolls out its new A380 jumbo airliner, you might have noted that U.S. companies provide much of the A380's expensive avionics equipment. If customers choose the model fitted with the GP7200 engines from Engine Alliance (a joint venture of U.S.-based General Electric and Pratt & Whitney) instead of the Rolls-Royce engines, they will receive a product that has a large part of its equipment made by U.S. companies. That may not comfort Boeing, but it shows how the commercial-airplane business has links on both shores...
...group, known as the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, held a joint session with the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a 12-member group of students, faculty and alumni who issue recommendations on University investment policy...
PetroChina officials have assured investors that the firm does not deal directly with Sudan. But the firm is a spin-off of the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which has invested more than $1 billion in a joint venture with the government of Sudan to boost that country’s oil production. CNPC still controls 90 percent of PetroChina, and a restructuring plan unveiled late last year would move all of CNPC’s overseas assets—including its Sudan stake—directly into PetroChina’s hands...
...presidents of MIT, Princeton, and Stanford released a joint statement Thursday criticizing Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers’ suggestion that “innate differences” between the sexes account for the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering, while leaders of several other schools presented a series of proposals designed to make the faculty tenure process more “family-friendly...