Word: provenance
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...Instead of piggybacking onto the obesity epidemic, government officials should address Japan’s specific concerns. High smoking rates (among the highest of the developed nations) are infinitely more pressing than obesity. Ditto for stomach cancer (start a campaign against pickled foods! They’re the proven culprits). Japan, stop trying to fix your cuts with America’s casts. Maybe the cast will stop the bleeding, but a band-aid is all you need.—Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...
...experience through a company she started in order to promote computer gaming as a sport. Wenger also discussed the impact of the current economic crisis on start-ups but told the students not to let the current market turbulence deter them. “If the financial crisis has proven anything,” he said, “it’s that working for a large institution is just as safe as starting your own business...
...unification with the mainland. But dissatisfaction with Ma's agenda has also been intensified by the continued struggles of the Taiwan economy. The expected benefits from the measures taken to improve links to China have yet to materialize. The anticipated rush of big-spending mainland tourists, for example, has proven to be only a trickle, due to continued restrictions on travel to Taiwan imposed by Beijing. "I think the good cross-strait policies have been blamed as a scapegoat for the downturn in the economy," says Chao Chien-min, a political scientist at National Chengchi University. "If times were better...
...American love story between East High's basketball star, Troy, and math ace Gabriella has proven a triumph not just for Disney - which has reaped around $680 million in retail sales from the franchise to date - but for cultural globalization. In Latin America, HSM concerts play 50,000-seat stadiums. Swedes and Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Poles have been among the millions to take in HSM: The Ice Tour, which has three worldwide touring companies. The stage show has played in dozens of cities worldwide, including Beirut, where it premiered during violent clashes. On HSM web forums, fans from Madagascar...
...that this thing may be dragged out again as campaigning starts to raise questions about his responsibility and stability," says Laurent Joffrin, editor of the left-leaning daily Liberation. That threat is especially true given Strauss-Kahn's long-standing reputation in France as a man with formidable and proven powers of seduction...