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...challenge of securing the loading and movement of containers is formidable. Anyone can lease one of the many millions of containers that circulate around the globe, then pack it with up to 65,000 lbs. of items, close the door and lock it with a seal that costs half a dollar. The box then enters the transportation system, with all the providers working diligently to get it where it needs to go as quickly as possible. Accompanying documents usually describe the contents in general terms. If the box moves through intermediate ports before it enters the U.S., the container manifest...
...just won’t do, because there is no hierarchy in the Harvard reach for right. Professors are corrected mid-lecture; TFs must be debated. The endless stroking of egos continues until the clock slowly ticks forward to the end of the hour. Then we close our books, pack our bags, and return next week for Round...
...kilometer race put her just under four minutes behind the winner. Blake Russell, a 30-year old professional runner, won the championship race in 26:47. Only three runners associated with colleges finished higher than Scherf, with Chelsea McKell of BYU leading that pack with her 8th-place finish. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Hughes' invitation to the Games? Being a mule for Russian rival and reigning world champion IRINA SLUTSKAYA, inset. The two share a New York City dressmaker, and when the seamstress found out that Hughes--who lives in a Manhattan suburb--was traveling to Torino, she asked the skater to pack Slutskaya's dress too. After the family arrived in Italy, Hughes' father John confirmed that they had the Russian's dress and joked, "I tried it on." I guess we'll know whom to question if another big sporting event is plagued by a wardrobe malfunction...
...long time, but, says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, "that comes to a couple of feet per century, and that?s more than society is equipped to handle." It doesn?t, moreover, take into account the two mammoth ice sheets of Antarctica, which pack about 20 and 200 feet of potential sea-level rise, respectively, if some new process is discovered that speeds their disintegration. Given what?s being reported in Greenland, the fact that nobody knows what that process might be should be little comfort...