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...sold to Vietnam. The brutal abuse of political prisoners in Cuba was chronicled by Armando Valladares in his book “Against All Hope,” which he presented as a US ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Valladares was imprisoned and sent to forced labor camps for refusing to place a placard on his work desk stating his support for the government...
What do you get when you spend over 400 hours brainstorming, 1,000 hours of research and planning, and six years of hard labor and work on a unique Z-shaped, architectural project? How about a check for $50,000 from Harvard’s Urban Planning and Design Department? On Dec. 5, architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi were awarded this year’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize winner for their Seattle-based project, the Olympic Sculpture Park. As Manfredi says, the project is “something radical.” The Graduate School of Design...
Could anything prevent that from happening? Sure. Rogers--a co-founder, with George Soros, of the Quantum Fund--ticks off a list of danger points, including potential military conflicts (with Taiwan as the No. 1 candidate), political instability, social unrest, widening gaps between social classes, labor turmoil, dwindling resources, environmental threats and the like. But, he says, "China doesn't have to be perfectly mistake-free in order to produce some of the most profitable companies in the world...
...LABOR LINK Studies have shown that people who work through the wee hours may have a greater risk of developing prostate and breast cancer. Scientists think the culprit could be a lack of melatonin, a tumor-suppressing hormone that is normally produced at night...
...August, National Intelligence Director McConnell ordered CIA Director Michael Hayden to have ready by Labor Day a new intelligence estimate reflecting the latest information. Hayden said he needed more time. McConnell set a Nov. 30 deadline. Because some of the information sources were new, Hayden decided to launch a "red team" counter-intelligence operation to make sure that the U.S. wasn't falling for Iranian disinformation. In late October, the Persia House and red-team analysts offered their findings to Hayden and his deputy, Steve Kappes, around the coffee table in Hayden's office. The red team found that...