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...amount of reading that most professors assign is, simply put, impossible to do. Some are worse culprits than others, but it is rare to find a humanities or social science course with a manageable reading load. I enjoy reading 100 pages each night—but few students can read 100 pages a night for each class...
...Swissair's last financial report showed that the annual cost to the company was at least $309 million. Corti says cost-cutting measures at LTU are in place to return it to profitability by 2003. Swissair, the airline, has also been losing money ($110 million in 2000), even with load factors above the industry average. Swissair does have some businesses like Gate Gourmet, an airline caterer, that are profitable and downturn-resistant. With the worldwide industry in descent, it could do with a few more. But for now, the company has a new management in place, a new business strategy...
...settle. For me, its charms are antique: here the ruins of a once-mighty fort, there the shards of porcelain, reputedly from Zheng He's ships, that I find hidden in a dilapidated museum. As recently as the 1950s, seagoing freighters thronged to East Africa's largest port, off-loading boozy Western seamen and picking up African treasures. Today, as I stroll along the harbor, stevedores off-load shipments slowly - a languor born of chronic underemployment. Still, the Chinese come. "We Chinese can find business opportunities everywhere," grins Cen Haokun, one of three affable brothers who own six restaurants...
...Americans and Europeans control the big markets," he says, "but we can build our fortunes in Africa." Recently, Yi traveled to the island of Madagascar for a delicate dEmarche: figuring out the right amount of cash needed to convince a recalcitrant port official to allow his ship to load goods. "Very tricky," he says, with a wink. "In Africa, there are no standard rules of business." A Chinese shipping empire is made on one remote isle at a time...
...time in Venice, more than two centuries ago, the gondola was a kind of horse and buggy for every well-to-do family. Now it's primarily for tourists. The basic shell - no seats, no brass ornaments, no extras - costs about $22,000. If you load it with everything, the price can run to about $36,000. A key element in any gondola is the forcola, which serves as an oar post but in fact is often a work of art. There are only three people left who carve forcole out of large pieces of walnut...