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...been best known for its handicrafts, particularly the fine, handblown glassware from the factories in nearby Marinha Grande. The delicate glass, often richly colored, was a by-product of Portugal's maritime ambitions: 700 years ago, the monarchy needed ships and ordered the planting of 12,000 hectares of pine forest to provide timber and control the shifting coastal sands. Those two raw materials attracted glassmakers to the area in the 18th century; the region has been a centre for the industry ever since. Today Leiria produces 45,000 tons of glassware (worth €175 million), and exports three-quarters...
...fact, rising rates should be met with cheers, not jeers. They confirm the recovery. Companies can start raising prices, allowing them to start hiring again too. Business is so good at Pine Hall Brick Co. in Winston-Salem, N.C., that the company raised prices 3% in January--its first increase since 2001 for face brick used in housing--and plans a similar price increase next year. The company is doubling output at its Fairmont, Ga., plant and boosting head count 8%, to 320 workers. "We designed the plant to double capacity over three years," says president Fletcher Steele...
...take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with the spammers they attempt to foil...
...Society of Publication Designers gave their highest honor, the Gold Medal for Excellence, to Arthur Hochstein and Cynthia Hoffman for their work on the Best Photos of 2003 issue. We also won two silver medals and seven merit awards that recognized the work of, among others, D.W. Pine, Thomas Miller, Marti Golon and Christine Dunleavy, along with picture editors Marie Tobias and Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz. Time.com led by Joshua Macht, won first place in Web photojournalism from the National Press Photographers Association for the site's Iraq coverage, most notably its feature "21 Days to Baghdad...
...mountain trails around Spera, where thick pine forests provide cover from U.S. aircraft, have become a major infiltration point for Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives. The watchful locals, members of the Zadran tribe, sympathize with the jihadists. It's ambush country, and some time around 7:30 p.m. Tillman's patrol was attacked. In the 12 to 15 minutes of shooting that followed, two Americans were wounded. An Afghan militia man was killed. So was Tillman...