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...homes, hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made 1 of every 3 chairs sold. The demand provided ample work for a tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones, a district with virtually full employment and a chronic shortage of skilled labor. "We were the China of Europe," boasts Giulio Fanin, an entrepreneur who makes machine tools for chair manufacturers...
...respect, whatever you choose to term it. As long as parents are the ones paying for room and board, my fellow students’ only right at this University is to learn or to leave.Perhaps Harvard should reevaluate the issue of co-ed housing, but I have a modest proposition. Ignore the students and the UC—that they’d even be so silly as to use the language of rights speaks to their youth and immaturity. If students want to acquire the right to live with whomever they choose, let them buy it by living...
...With all those caveats in mind, however, it seems clear that the benefits of calcium and vitamin D supplements are small for most women and probably fairly modest even for those at greatest risk of cancer or bone loss. In addition, the studies found that women who take extra calcium have a 17% greater risk of developing kidney stones...
...first two years I lived in Washington, I was "the wife." My husband was an editor at the Washington Post, but my career lottery number had yet to come up. Tagging along in the modest swirl of D.C. cocktail parties, I was the half of the couple who watched people's gaze drift during conversation as they searched the room for someone a little more plugged in. No one remembered my name or asked for my card or paid for my lunch. I was unexpensable. My husband twice received handsome engraved invitations to presidential dinners. For those events and many...
...through the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Crimson on February 21, 2006.” Although traditionally ideas gained authority when they were published, and the “scarcity of paper...created the regime of authority,” the internet complicates the picture, Weinberger told the modest audience of around 25. Anyone can edit a Wikipedia article, raising the issue of its reliability, he added. While most teachers recommend Encyclopedia Britannica to their students as a source of information, even Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales tells students not to cite Wikipedia, according to Weinberger. Samuel...