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With its gently sloping seating, a small basement set shop and a 124-year tradition of extravagant productions, the now worn Hasty Pudding theater is waiting for a face lift--to be funded by Harvard...
...haven't seen an animal pee until you've seen Postosuchus lift its tail and issue a watery blast to mark its territory. Nor have you seen animal passion until you've seen two beefy Tyrannosaurs make eight tons of back-to-belly-bumpin' jungle love. And once you've seen Walking with Dinosaurs (Discovery, April 16, 7 p.m. E.T.), well, you still won't have seen real animals do any of that. But you'll come as close as technology allows. The critters in this three-hour special, which drew more than half the viewing audience when...
...Music can give you a little lift sometimes, when it gets quiet," says Briggs & Briggs owner Fred H. Humphreys...
Although the bill would only apply to companies that comply with international labor laws, this scenario raises questions about exploitation and whether increasing business for large companies is the best way in which to develop poorer countries. For example, factories often lift the economy by providing new jobs, only to devastate it when they leave a few years later, having found cheaper labor elsewhere. However, although African textile unions object to the mandate to buy American fabrics, they overwhelmingly support the bill, which they hope will lead to increasingly more open markets. Indeed, the bill has the cross-cultural appeal...
...other countries cannot only forgive debts, as they have recently begun to do. The most effective way to lift nations out of poverty is by stimulating their economies and increasing their exports by opening up international markets to them. But the U.S., like many other countries including Japan and France, remains highly sensitive to opening its markets, particularly for agricultural imports. In this time of decreasing foreign aid, this attitude becomes less and less acceptable. Only by combining debt relief with efforts to increase exports from the poorest countries will the U.S. and other wealthy countries fulfill their obligation...