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...while political squabbles come and go like fashion, buildings tend to last an awfully long time. Accordingly, Summers is equally (if not more) dogmatic when it comes to the science-centric Allston expansion, his pet project and real-life Sim City. In February 2004, this editorial page hit the nail on the head, charging that “the [Allston] discussion between Mass. Hall and everyone else has indeed come to seem more and more like a monologue.” Faculty members have claimed repeatedly that they have not been kept au courant with the Allston initiative. Meanwhile, students...
...while political squabbles come and go like fashion, buildings tend to last an awfully long time. Accordingly, Summers is equally (if not more) dogmatic when it comes to the science-centric Allston expansion, his pet project and real-life Sim City. In February 2004, this editorial page hit the nail on the head, charging that “the [Allston] discussion between Mass. Hall and everyone else has indeed come to seem more and more like a monologue.” Faculty members have claimed repeatedly that they have not been kept au courant with the Allston initiative. Meanwhile, students...
...enough of muddy paw prints on the couch or a mooching pooch prowling under the dining table? Here's a new, high-tech solution from Innotek, based in Garrett, Ind.: pet-proofing Zones, discs the size of smoke detectors that can keep pets out of rooms or away from areas 12 ft. in diameter. Available at innotek.net ($100 for a starter kit), Zones can easily be installed in a doorway or under your favorite lounge chair. As with outdoor invisible fences, dogs wear collars that react when the pets get too close to a Zone. Innotek says the signal...
...biggest supplier, the end of quotas "will have serious consequences for the European industry," says Bill Lakin, director-general of European trade body Euratex. Brussels could yet trigger safeguards should Chinese imports explode. You can be sure it won't need 10 years to do so. The Schroders' Pet Project With German unemployment approaching 11%, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder understands the need to protect jobs. But he could hardly have expected the howls that greeted the news that his fourth wife Doris Schröder-Köpf had helped German drugstore chain Rossmann develop a range...
...important too. Certainly, no one in an asthmatic's household should smoke. Allergies to mites can be controlled with a mattress cover. Sensitivity to air pollution can be treated with filters. But it's important to pinpoint exactly what problem a child has. Getting rid of the family pet may be a solution, unless it turns out the child wasn't allergic to the animal in the first place...