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...closing the store in order to protect the consumer," says Steven Fink, president of Lexicon Communications Corps, the nation's oldest crisis management firm. "But then Taco Bell reopened the stores and nothing had changed. Why did they close the stores and then reopen them? That sends a mixed signal that the company doesn't have a handle on what's going...
...largest RNA molecule using the nuclear magnetic resonance technique. “There are very few structural biologists who want to work with very large molecules,” D’Souza says. Before D’Souza’s work delineating the structure of an encapsidation signal of the murine leukemia retrovirus, researchers had only done the same for molecules of about half that size...
...Training Corps programs were occupying not only Harvard’s classrooms but also its residential space. Navy officers took over Eliot and Kirkland Houses, Leverett and Winthrop Houses belonged to the army, and a host of Harvard grad school dorms housed members of specialized programs like the Radio Signal Corps. The remaining upperclass population at the College (mostly the young, disabled, or otherwise undraftable) was small enough to fit into Adams, Dunster, and Lowell Houses, according to Bethell’s book. Harvard’s characteristic luxury and exclusivity eroded as the War wore on. Admissions requirements relaxed...
...over-represented group. Third, education happens to be valued in the “Asian” culture, which may account for the push towards educational achievement. Should Asians be penalized because of this value? By limiting their numbers in schools, educational administrators, in effect, are sending this signal. In the end, bringing the issue of inequality to a successful conclusion via affirmative action is difficult. One can view affirmative action—a policy to help foster diversity and address previous inequality—as harmful depending on one’s perspective. On one hand, it can serve...
...giving the wrong message, as when Abe last week allowed his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to reinstate 11 of 12 members banished last year after voting against former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal-reform program. Though they pledged to toe the party line, their readmission sent a signal that the LDP's commitment to reform may be halfhearted. "It will hurt us badly," says Taro Kono, assistant chairman of the LDP's policy-research council. "Abe is seen as a weak leader." At least Bono likes...