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Shortly after the beginning of the challenge, Guest frantically searches the $1.50 per pound pile of used clothing at the Garment District (she was, after all, on deadline...
...currency continued gaining ground on the euro and British pound Monday, while a surging Japanese yen caused more trouble for Japan's export-reliant economy. That prompted the G7 to issue a statement that member nations would undertake collective efforts to undercut the value of the yen to limit the economic damage its rise has inflicted on Japan...
President of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Gilmar Ferreira Mendes spoke about the Brazilian constitution to a packed conference room in Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall, yesterday afternoon. Mendes was appointed to the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court in 2002, and became the President of the Court in 2008. Billy Magnuson and Alex Crohn, the co-editors-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal said that Mendes initially informed them that he would be in the Cambridge area and available to speak this month. “Justice Mendes has a lot of experience with comparative...
...comic-book hero might, as a machine of one-is an essential aspect of human consciousness," he writes. That may not ring true with everyone, but he sells the sentiment on the strength of his enthusiasm. He describes Harold Graham's 112-foot practice flight with a 140-pound Rocket Belt in 1961 as a "pilot kicking gravity's ass like it had never been kicked before." Defying God's wishes, it turns out, isn't an easy task. The world's best jetpack pilot, Bill Suitor, likened flying the contraption to "standing on a beach ball bobbing...
...learning the hard way that a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman, as a sudden slew of staph infections has sacked several players in the game...