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...Tourism and Travel: California and New York - home to the country's two largest cities - both suffered dramatic declines in the number of visitors this fall. Hotel revenues in Manhattan plummeted in November, as did Broadway ticket sales. Atlanta, one of the nation's busiest hubs, experienced a drop in business travel. So too did Silicon Valley, which reported an increase in canceled corporate meetings. Restaurants in San Francisco are struggling as well; some predict they will close their doors completely in the new few months if conditions don't improve. The only upbeat tourism officials around are those...
...exploration to flourish in the region in the past few years. The Piceance Basin alone drew dozens of exploration firms, including large companies like Chevron. Now those firms are pulling back. Harpole expects the number of rigs in the Piceance Basin, which energy experts say is one of the largest natural-gas reserves in North America, to drop 40% in the coming months. "There is a systematic change in thinking among energy companies that you could not have guessed just six months ago," says Harpole. "The places with the highest drilling costs will see a reduction first, but rig counts...
...cuts. Instead, students should prepare to sacrifice our share, just as all elements of higher education are doing.This begins with the recognition that our interests are not overriding. The Harvard community is not just students—nor is it just students and faculty. Harvard is one of the largest employers in Massachusetts, and its staff depends on the university far more than we do. Their ability to work here, just like our ability to study here, deserves to be preserved. First, we do not—and we all must not—view staff interests as separable from...
Ensconced in the hallowed halls of the Faculty Club yesterday afternoon, Harvard’s classics professors unanimously approved a proposal that would open the concentration’s musty doors to more students, marking the department’s largest curricular overhaul for undergraduates in over 30 years...
...many guests as they could as they rushed the swanky Taj and Oberoi hotels, frequented by foreign tourists and India’s own elite. It is the reason these terrorists killed average Indian citizens as they sped through the city. India is the world’s largest democracy, and these extremists hated democracy...