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...central banks of Japan and China aren't buying American bonds out of charity. They're doing it to shore up the dollar and prevent their own currencies from appreciating; this is making their exports cheaper and more appealing to American consumers. One result is that Japan and China have been running enormous trade surpluses with America. They have then reinvested a chunk of that surplus in U.S. bonds. Trans-Pacific trade is thus starting to look like that theoretical impossibility, a perpetual-motion machine: America pays for Asian goods with borrowed money, then Asia uses the profits from these...
Atkins-friendly, low-carb meals are the bread and butter (so to speak) of most new club restaurants. Ethnic cuisine is catching on too. Typhoon, inside Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club, has become such a popular sushi spot that it does great business with both club members and guests who walk in off the street. With a menu that includes healthy versions of such Louisiana favorites as spicy crawfish and Cajun-style gumbo, chef Marc Gilberti serves about 200 diners a day at the Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans, earning $100,000 a month for his club. Like...
Allston represents an opportunity to aggressively address scientific weaknesses by constructing from scratch a third science campus at the University—a one-million-square-foot science hub geared to shore up the areas where Harvard has fallen behind, Hyman and other colleagues have said...
...Crimson expects two or three promising recruits to help shore up the ladder next season, though under-19 champion Lily Lorentzen, who has been accepted to Harvard, is postponing college matriculation to compete professionally. She is expected to enroll in fall...
...never opened. Of those in the 1,500 landing craft, at least 10 boats foundered, one losing 30 of 32 men. One company saw 96% die within the first 15 minutes. Of the first 32 Sherman tanks that landed, supposedly equipped with devices to help them make it to shore, 27 sank in the churning seas, drowning their crews. "Two kinds of men are staying on this beach," shouted Colonel George Taylor to the men of his regiment on Omaha Beach. "The dead and those who are going to die. Get up! Move in! Goddammit! Move...