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...York was the centre of the universe, or if achieving international renown depended on living or working in this country, I would instinctively agree. I certainly didn’t think that way in high school.It’s alarming to see one’s goals shift so markedly while at university. It’s painful to imagine being left behind as all the cool kids from college move to “the City” next year, reduced to periodic contact by email and Facebook, provided the bandwidth in the Great White North holds...
...week to reverse its generous policy for some sports enthusiasts traveling with their equipment has outraged the world surfing community. As of today, passengers are banned from checking surfboards, kayaks, canoes or wind surfing boards. BA's decision is what surfers might call a roundhouse cutback - a 180 degree shift in direction - from their original policy that still allows passengers to bring most sporting goods free, including golf clubs and bags, skis and snowboards...
...match.” Harvard now enters its long midseason break before resuming play in the spring. “We have to carry over the great things they did this weekend and the improvements they made,” Scaringe said. The Crimson’s focus will shift from individual performance to the full-team effort needed to be successful in dual matches in the spring. “We have to improve our overall team energy,” Green said. But, despite the work to be done, the team is celebrating its success and improvement...
...example, health advocates ask why the most fattening calories on our grocery shelves are the most subsidized. During an unprecedented obesity epidemic, why not support fruits and vegetables instead of cattle and poultry feed? Similarly, green groups would shift funding from subsidies for the grain-industrial complex to conservation payments for eco-sensitive farmers of any size. The results would be less erosion; more restoration of grasslands and wetlands; and less degradation of water bodies like the Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, the Colorado River and the Gulf of Mexico, where farm nutrients have created...
...smarter, Wal-Mart's U.S. organization is experiencing a gravitational shift. Wal-Mart has always been run from Bentonville, the defiantly hick-town global home office in Benton County, Ark. Each Tuesday, for decades, an armada of planes would fling regional bosses to the far parts of the empire. They would return Friday and report Saturday morning at the big weekly meeting that has been held since Mr. Sam was in charge. Numbers would be counted; plans would be made; orders would be cut. In the field, store managers wouldn't change their socks unless the home office gave...