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...does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanadú. In addition to the ski slope, which has a run 250 m long and 55 m wide, covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks...
...airline investments as "temporary insanity." Olivia Mitchell, executive director of the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, warns that for a pension fund, direct investment in such a risky business--especially when the fund manager becomes the airline chairman--"creates a slippery slope to conflict of interest. Running a pension fund and running an airline are two different skill sets...
...father was ill that morning, so my mother set out alone in the Land Rover, accompanied by her two Dalmatians. She spent the morning crawling along the slope of the nearby gorge but found very little until just before noon, when she noticed a scrap of enormously thick bone protruding from beneath the surface. She instantly realized that it was part of a hominid skull--and that two teeth were embedded in the rock just above it. Elated, she drove back to camp to tell my father Louis. As he remembered it, she rushed in crying...
...left elbow. There were dark stains that might have been blood on his t-shirt on the right side of his torso. His arms and hands were also stained- possibly with blood. There was also a line of congealed blood running across his eyebrows and down the right slope of his nose. He was lying on a sofa-sized red cushion as a man off camera reached to take his pulse. The soldier appears to be in some agony; the grimace gives away his pain, and he's not saying a word...
...agrees with every policy of the University, but efforts to change questionable services should not be leveraged by withdrawing funds. To preserve the efficacy of programs and services at Harvard, the University should not validate any of these requests—doing so with every group creates a slippery slope of pandering that is unreasonable and unsustainable...