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...armies of cheap workers, but that edge is getting dull. Labor costs have increased 50% in the past four years across southeastern provinces - an area of China sometimes called the "workshop of the world" - and a new labor law passed by Beijing will only add to the burden. Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS in Hong Kong, says that factory owners in southern China believe the new law will drive labor costs another 10-25% higher. Among other provisions, the new law entitles laid-off workers to one month of severance pay for every year of employment. "In a case...
...kind of surreal.”In the meantime, in his last go-round as a collegiate baseballer, Jenkins will try to nail down the second-base job and help propel Harvard to another Ivy League crown. He’s been waiting.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...circuit Kuld plays in, hosts a number of beach volleyball tournaments each summer. During the season, two-player teams accumulate points, compete in a provincial tournament, and if they’re good enough, get a shot at a national title.During the summer of 2006, Kuld and his partner Jonathan Turalinski took first place in the 18U Canadian Beach Volleyball National Championships and earned a tryout for Team Canada last March. At the selection camp, the duo placed third and qualified as the first alternate for the 2007 Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) 21U Championships held in Milan, Italy this...
...Currier REP Karen A. McKinnon ’10 is planning a similar operation for her House within the next few weeks. McKinnon said that recovering ceramic dishware is important since it reduces the amount of plastic dishware that dining halls subsequently purchase. In addition to the environmental benefits, Jonathan B. Steinman ’10, the REP for Winthrop, cited the monetary advantages of recovering dishware. According to Steinman, each place setting costs 22 dollars, adding up to over $100,000-worth of lost dishware across the 13 dining halls each year. Last year, Lowell conducted a similar...
Following months of data collection, Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government and Radha K. Iyengar of the Center for Government and International Studies determined that there was a 5-10 percent increase in insurgent attacks following a spike in anti-war rhetoric...