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...fierce Ivy League rivalry was set up in the semifinals as Harvard faced Yale on enemy turf for the second time this season...
...position, No. 115 sophomore Hideko Tachibana put forth a strong effort against No. 85 White. Tachibana lost a close first set, 6-4, and the second set saw potential for a comeback as the athletes swapped games, ultimately knotting the score at 5-5. But Tachibana could not hold on in the end, and she lost her second set...
...foster an open culture of innovation, which Berlin at Stanford calls the main ingredient in Silicon Valley's success. Kolesnikov agrees. "What developed around Stanford was an entrepreneurial culture," he says. "I don't know how you create that. I guess it's up to the government to set up some kinds of conditions and leave people alone, stop freaking them out. Maybe something will come...
...counterweights be built into the architectural designs to allow buildings to bend and sway rather than break during temblors. Haiti, by contrast, lets its buildings rise with little if any input from engineers and plenty of bribes to so-called government inspectors. Structures have scant reinforcement and are often set on weak foundations. That's why 13 of 15 federal ministry buildings pancaked in the Jan. 12 earthquake - and why, in 2008, 91 students and teachers died when their school in a Port-au-Prince suburb collapsed. The school's owner was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after admitting he barely...
...Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue, because it's more developed...