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Champagne is known to be expensive, but Veuve Clicquot's Vertical Limit champagne cellar (right) by Porsche Design Studio takes the acquisition of bubbly to new heights. The 6-ft.-tall (1.8 m) Vertical Limit houses 12 magnums of vintage Veuve Clicquot?each behind a hand-soldered door?and costs $70,000. Only 15 have been made, and eight have already sold. This summer the cellar line develops further with a three-magnum model...
...Although he acknowledges that poverty plays a role in residential segregation in disadvantaged neighborhoods, Peach argues that much of it is self-imposed, through a “positive desire for clustering” for cultural and linguistic reasons. Segregation can hinder learning in English-speaking British schools and limit job networking. In turn, this may limit job opportunities and success on the job, which usually requires an ability to communicate with the English-speaking British public...
...dorms, classrooms, and clubs where they were formed. And in spite of all the solicitations made for photographs, jewelry, and other items, these recollections remain the most important symbol of graduation day and all that came before it. The University should make that realization too, and take care to limit their commoditization of Commencement. Reva P. Minkoff ’08, the former Crimson Staff Director, is a senior government concentrator in Pforzheimer House...
Though Congress has not yet decided whether to reauthorize the AIDS relief plan, Mass. General Hospital received a five-year, $20.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to research the possibility of a vaccine that would limit the replication of the HIV virus in those infected by the virus...
...When has it become a professor’s prerogative to limit our avenues of learning? Forcing students to attend lecture when they would rather watch an easily provided video is seemingly an acknowledgment that in-person lectures are not compelling enough to merit their own attendance—the video is a valid substitute...