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...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...
...tortured way, the British monarchy stepped into the 21st century last week when it granted Charles permission to become the first heir to the throne to marry a divorcé. Never mind that the heavily negotiated solution to the joint problem of royal divorce and succession arrived 70 years too late for poor Edward VIII and nearly 500 years too late for Anne Boleyn. The living parties all felt like celebrating. In their first betrothed public appearance, the Prince of Wales, 56, smiled and blushed while Parker Bowles, 57, showed off her ring and giddily declared, "I'm just coming down...
...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...
...long been suspected by U.S. intelligence, North Korea has indeed built nuclear weapons "for self-defense." Though the bulletin ended years of speculation about the general state of Kim's nuclear-weapons program, the declaration was actually two blows in one: Pyongyang also announced it was pulling out of joint talks with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea to keep the Korean peninsula nuclear-free. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, hoping to play down the news, called the announcement "unfortunate...
...that’s what we were there for as undergraduate participants of “Harvardwood 101.” We wanted to learn the nuances of the entertainment industry and then rule the joint. The “Harvardwood 101” intersession program was created by the Harvardwood organization, an LA-based group that seeks to connect current undergraduates to an estimated several thousand Harvard alumni in the entertainment industry. It was founded by Harvard alumni Mia Riverton ’99, Adam Fratto ’90 and Stacy Cohen ’89, who felt...