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...league has yet to find an effective formula worldwide. Foreign markets account for less than 5% of the nearly $7 billion in annual revenues the NFL takes in. Last October, NFL team owners approved a resolution enabling the league to stage up to two international regular-season games per year through 2011. Sunday's game comes two years after the NFL's first international regular-season contest, in Mexico City, which drew a league-record crowd of 103,000. That event's success has spurred a more than 20% annual increase in revenue derived from Mexico since then, which...
...Crimson with three touchdown runs, but quarterbacks Pizzotti, Winters, and Liam O’Hagan have two apiece...Harvard ran almost twice as much as it threw on Saturday, attempting 44 runs to only 24 passes...Dartmouth accumulated 143 yards on the ground, far exceeding the 85-yard-per-game average surrendered by the Crimson coming in. Milan Williams, back after missing last week’s game with Columbia, led the Big Green with 74 yards on 13 carries.—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
When I visited China for the first time two years ago, I went with high expectations. China was constantly touted as the new giant of the 21st century, a country at the center of globalization and development with GDP per capita growing at an unprecedented eight percent per year. I expected to see a country in its economic peak, a country different from the one my parents experienced, one not crippled by war, famine, or the outrageous social agendas of the Cultural Revolution. But in the end, it wasn’t growth that left the deepest impression...
...industrial sediment and waste. And it’s really no surprise, since environmental regulations do little to prevent the dumping of waste into water bodies by factories and farms, including everything from petroleum to ammonia nitrogen to mercury. Since China has only one-fifth the water supply per capita as the U.S., conservation and stricter regulation is essential in order to preserve a sustainable water supply...
...state by mounting costs, including Massachusetts’ notorious property tax. Furthermore, casinos in nearby Connecticut already drain huge amounts of gambling money from Massachusetts pockets. Patrick’s plan would keep that money within the commonwealth, filling the State House coffers with up to $400 million per year. The proposal would thus provide ample revenue for plugging the state’s holes—beginning with the high property tax. Patrick ran for governor on a platform of reducing this squeeze on homeowners, and we are heartened to see a concrete plan to accomplish that promise...