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...house arrest there, and her company recently launched a furniture line named Katonah. But when the company moved to trademark the name Katonah for the furniture and a long list of other household goods last year, residents fought back. A February meeting--which featured Martha-made cookies--didn't prompt a withdrawal of the application, so the Katonah Village Improvement Society (KVIS) and two businesses filed petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "To the people of Katonah," said KVIS president Lydia Landesberg, "it felt like identity theft...
...satisfaction. The best thing to do is to reject the labels, reject the categorizations, and ignore the supposed “ramifications” of an event like the Lowell “riot.”So no, an event like the Lowell incident shouldn’t prompt a “real, frank discussion” about race, as Crimson editorial editor Weslie M. W. Turner ’10 called for in her comment, “Dancing Around Lowell Courtyard.” The people who believe that the conversation should be about race actually...
...India and China have argued against enforcing strict emission controls in their countries, on the grounds that these could hinder their economic growth and prompt a global economic slowdown. But the new IEA report says working with China and India on alternative energy sources and curbing emissions is a matter of global urgency...
...Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Staggered over five years and renewable for five more, the $3.75 million gift will be administered by the KSG but will hopefully fund and bring together research on energy policy in disciplines across the university. We hope this donation will prompt Harvard to become the leader in energy research that it can and should...
...emotions: First, the students were given standard psychological questionnaires designed to measure explicit affect and mood. Then they were given assessments of nonconscious mood: in word tests, volunteers were asked to complete fragments such as jo_ or ang_ _ with letters of their choice. Some word stems were intended to prompt either neutral or emotionally positive responses, such as jog or joy; others could be filled in neutrally or negatively - angle versus angry. In a separate word test, students paired a target word such as mouth with its best match: cheek, which is similar in meaning, or smile, which is similar...