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...Commissioner came back to work last week to discover 47 million Chinese-made sweaters, 17 million pairs of men's trousers, 6 million T shirts and more than 8 million bras locked up in customs warehouses around Europe?and retailers across the Continent calling for his head. The enormous pile of impounded clothing was the result of a June deal that Mandelson struck with Beijing that limited some Chinese textile exports to the E.U. At the time, Europe's textile industry, backed by the French, Spanish and other governments, was screaming for protection from a surge in low-cost Chinese...
...like 24, Alias and Lost before it, Break makes a virtue of its preposterousness. The twists pile on fast enough--I've never seen a pilot in such a rush to tie itself in knots--that you surrender. The dialogue is tight (if sometimes clichéd), with some much needed splashes of humor. During the holdup, a bank worker tells Scofield that the manager is at White Castle. "White Castle," Scofield says, skeptical. "Fast-food place," the teller deadpans. "They serve those little square burgers." Miller (The Human Stain) carries the lead role with grim charisma, like a jailbird Jack...
...begin making assignments based on the size of suites in their yard. For example, Nye Barth’s Crimson Yard—which included Grays, Wigglesworth, Greenough, Hurlbut, and Pennypacker—contains a variety of room sizes, so before she begins assigning rooms, she sorts the pile into two groups: students who want smaller rooms of three or fewer and those who want larger rooms. On the other hand, Mancall’s Ivy Yard—which includes Claverly, Hollis, Holworthy, Lionel, Massachusetts Hall, Mower, Stoughton, Straus, and Thayer—contains mostly doubles, so Mancall focuses...
...puberty is an especially poor reason for beginning a new phase of schooling." Jaana Juvonen, the UCLA psychologist who spent more than 18 months crunching data for the report, believes that 11- and 12-year-olds are already dealing with so many changes that it makes little sense to pile on a change in schools. "Right around the time that most kids are transferring to middle school, everything starts to happen," she says. "There's physical development: you're starting to look different. And because of that, people's expectations of you are changing. In addition, there's cognitive development...
...printing technology, I was eager to see what they'd done to address my beefs. Using special "Advanced Photo Paper," I was able to create smear-free prints, and in a new round of blind taste tests, most of the 8250's prints ended up in the "good" pile...