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...street’s sentimental value to generations of Crimson editors and also lead to material costs and difficulties, and Bhayani questioned the idea of honoring only one particular individual. When the proposal was first presented last spring, Dan J. Wuensche, the manager of Plympton landmark Grolier Poetry Book Shop, said that the logistical changes from the renaming would be costly. In addition to The Crimson, other Harvard buildings that would be affected by the renaming of the street include Adams House and Quincy House. Duehay said that while he may have underestimated the opposition to his proposal...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Debates Renaming Street | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...good way to remedy this problem would be to incorporate work experience into every study abroad program. Working in a local shop, school, or office would provide a good context for students to make friends with locals. In a workplace there is plenty of material to sympathize with and talk about with one’s co-workers. Through these relationships, students could learn about culture in a more individual way and make sense of the numerous small facets of life they observe. You may observe that most of the town lives in standard-looking, three-room houses, but until...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Escaping America Abroad | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

Free Shipping. In case you have enough money to travel and shop this holiday season, InterContinental will ship one 30-lb. box free of charge for guests at its hotels in Atlanta, Boston, L.A., Miami, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. Simply take your box, with receipts as proof of local purchase, to the hotel's business center and have it shipped it to your doorstep. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Great Places to Skate this Season | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...Steve Sheraton, the magician behind Las Vegas-based Hottrix, a magic and special-effects shop that developed another (apparent) 2008 top seller, iBeer, said dropping the price on his app may have been a mistake. "I'm not selling more at $0.99 than I was at $2.99," he said of the entertaining little app that simulates a glass of beer: put the phone to your lips, tip it and you can "swallow" the beer. He dropped the price as part of a presidential sale on Election Day but said he'll raise it again soon to test his theory. Sheraton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Best-Selling iPhone App? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...entire industry. True, the technology wasn't that innovative. But Toyota had made the workforce integral to improving the system. Workers were not mere labor inputs. GM had no problem understanding the just-in-time inventory system Toyota used, but executing it required a buy-in from the shop floor so that everyone was dedicated to improvement. The Toyota system, says MacDuffie, "relies on contributions from employees. It feels vulnerable, but your willingness to be open to that vulnerability is what helps you make it work." In the 1980s and part of the '90s, the top-down culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Detroit's Last Winter? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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