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...stud the outskirts of every Chinese city, China stands to gain more than it loses through its building campaign. The scale of its needs remains immense: the country's leaders are, after all, attempting to move more people out of dire poverty and into something like comfort in a shorter time than has ever been seen before in human history...
...made digitally accessible.‘AN ARCADIA’Since the original class of six post-doctoral fellows first convened in 1961, the number of scholars I Tatti welcomes has grown to 15 full-year fellows and approximately 20 other fellows and visiting professors who stay for shorter terms. While the fellows were once all American, recent fellows have hailed from as far away as Australia, Ireland, and the Czech Republic. The fellows, whose fields range from art history and music history to English literature, are selected by a committee of scholars from around the world that meets annually...
...would you like to tell me?JSG: Stop sending me e-mails. No more e-mails.RR: What if there’s an emergency?JSG: Then you can send one e-mail. Just one. Or use the emergency texting system.RR: What would you most like to change about Harvard?JSG: Shorter e-mails from Drew Faust. How does she expect me to read them? They’re so long. They’re like essays.RR: So e-mail is the thing that really stands out about Harvard? JSG: Yeah, I’d like fewer e-mails and shorter...
...marathon matchup against New Hampshire was the only five-game match that the Crimson won all year. Harvard struggled to finish strong in contests that extended beyond four games, losing five such matches throughout the season. Shorter matches went both ways—the Crimson posted six shutouts and was held winless in seven confrontations...
This burgeoning of national high-speed networks is allowing trains to challenge airlines on shorter trips even before deregulation comes into force. The Eurostar service - the lucrative 21⁄4-hour route between London and Paris - already controls 70% of the travel market between the two capitals. Opened in 2007, a high-speed rail link between Madrid and Barcelona that cut intercity travel time to 21⁄2 hours has grabbed 50% of that market. Similar effects have been seen in Paris-Lyon, Paris-Brussels and Hamburg-Berlin transport links, where domination by fast trains has led airlines to reduce...