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...hard fact about the Air Force's choice is that it represents the downside of globalization. As economies of scale whittle away at the number of companies building a given product, inevitably a crafty customer is going to have to look worldwide for the best buy. It wasn't so long ago that Boeing could count on the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co. to keep it honest in dealings with the Pentagon. After all, that esteemed company built the KC-10 tanker for the Pentagon a generation ago, after beating out Boeing for that contract...
...Participants were asked to rate the discrimination on a scale from 1 to 9, where 1 represented no discrimination, and 9 definite discrimination. To gauge how people influence one another's views of discrimination, she made the questionnaires appear as if previous participants had filled out their answers on the same page. "When faced with responses attributed to a white individual, people averaged 4.4 when whites said the items weren't discrimination and 5.2 when whites said the items were discrimination. When the same responses were attributed to a black individual, the means were 3.3 and 6.1, respectively - a significant...
...registered amazement as the male soloist began singing in a surprisingly bass voice. Although the songs were in a foreign language, the emotion in the soloists’ voices enveloped the audience in the universality of music.A similar contagion spread during the performance of the Kuumba Singers, a large-scale choir that explores the musical tradition of African folk songs, spirituals, and gospel. Their performance featured three distinct vocal groups, whose juxtaposed parts harmonized perfectly.Throughout the evening, Hancock shared a diverse array of personal anecdotes about everything from his wife, whom he met in Asia, to his Irish American roots...
...According to a Facebook press release, Sandberg will be in charge of sales, marketing, and business development, and will report directly to Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive. “Together, with Mark and the great team at Facebook, we’ll be able to scale this company into a global leader and enable Facebook users worldwide to communicate and share information better,” Sandberg said in a statement. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity.” Prior to her six-year stint at Google, Sandberg was chief...
...first major survey and museum exhibition of Davey’s work. “Moyra’s an artist I feel has not gotten fair notice or the commercial success I think she deserves, in part because her work is so modest in scale and subject matter,” Molesworth says.As part of a larger initiative to bring more contemporary art to the Harvard art museums, Molesworth chose to display Davey’s work because she believes it also lends itself well to a learning environment. “I feel like students can have many...