Word: scraps
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...they kill you, right? I’d just go for it, get right on the bandwagon,” says Meares. Natalie D. Evans ’08 shared the experiences of a friend under Communist rule in East Germany. “If you brought pieces of scrap metal to the automobile factory,” she said, “you got your car five to seven years sooner!” Who said Communism was inflexible? But Evans also warns, based on time spent in China: “Communist cuisine is terrible. Worst fucking food...
...before. Noble has a ship-management division that oversees the operations of 150 vessels from the comfort of a Hong Kong office. Software tracks the fleet on an onscreen map, with the position of each vessel marked by an icon. Click on one, and the computer calls up every scrap of data you can imagine--the ship's current route and historic movements, its cargo, entire crew roster and maintenance schedule. One ship, the program tells you, is dropping off 6,000 tons of fruit in Rotterdam, another is discharging steel products in Tanzania, while yet another is loading methanol...
...lite included the Rothschilds during the 1890s, when Azerbaijan produced half the world's oil supply. Oil production slid steadily as the Soviets let the infrastructure rot. Today hundreds of rusted oil derricks and pump jacks, many predating World War II, cram the seafront outside Baku like a scrap-metal forest, with old Soviet tractors turning several wells. The astonishing sight was memorialized in the 1999 James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. Towering over the area now is a 16,000-ton water-injection platform being built by BP, which will be towed to an oil field...
...favor of calendar reform. While then we criticized the proposal on this page, one too many January chills have changed our minds, and, we hope, will change Harvard’s mind as well in the very near future. Institutionally stubborn though it may be, Harvard ought to scrap the current calendar once and for all, moving reading period, final papers, and final exams before winter vacation. A winter break of less than two weeks is simply not enough to rejuvenate the student body after a grueling semester of cram sessions, all-nighters, and extracurricular meetings. Life at Harvard...
...limits on Russian influence were made clear in July 2000 when Kim Jong-il pulled a fast one on Russia's then-rookie President Vladimir Putin. Back then, Kim told Putin - who visited Pyongyang en route to his debut G8 summit in Okinawa - that North Korea would scrap its missile programs if other countries agreed to blast its satellites into orbit for the purposes of "peaceful space exploration." Putin tried to play Kim's statement as a trump card in his case against Washington's plans to develop a national missile defense system. But, the following month, the North Korean...