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...large crack in the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba will open this week as the first commercial shipments of U.S. food in 38 years are due to arrive in Havana. After Hurricane Michelle ravaged Cuba last month, compounding the island's steep drop in tourism revenues after Sept. 11, Castro refused relief aid from Washington, his archenemy. But the communist dictator did agree to pay $30 million in cash for grain, poultry and vegetable oil from U.S. companies like ADM and Cargill--something he had vowed earlier he would never do. Under pressure from U.S. business and farmers, Congress last...
...Steep declines in the real wages of Harvard’s lowest paid service employees—a 13 percent drop over the past seven years for some custodians—“distressed” the committee, and members heard “powerful and often troubling” testimony from employees about the experience of working at Harvard...
...impossible: to add 7 cm to her height. The leg surgery would be simple, he said, if brutal. He would saw her shin bones, affix metal braces with 16 steel needles to her legs, then slowly stretch the newly forming bone tissue into a longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched 4 cm. "I can take the pain, if it means I can become...
...first meeting of 2002 and the next time Greenspan can do something about short-term interest rates (without scaring everybody with a between-the-meetings emergency). He doesn't know much better than anyone else where the downhill part ends and the uphill part begins, or how steep a re-expansion that uphill part will be. So he did what absolutely everybody expected - he sent the economy into the breach with a hot lunch and a pat on the back. And a shrug...
...preseason favorite for the first time in four years—returns more prolific scorers than any other team in the league. With much of that scoring coming from sophomores Tricia Tubridy and reigning Ivy Rookie of the Year Hana Peljto, the learning curve for the team is still steep. That alone makes a huge difference...