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...such limelight. In fact, the national opprobrium he experienced after stumbling during the rings event at the 1988 Games in Seoul made him quit sport for manufacturing. His initial venture making jackets was a flop. "We had only one kind of material, in seven colors," he says. "It took us three years to sell them all." The experience made him see that it might be smarter to outsource design and production and concentrate on retail. He envisaged a chain of Li Ning shops, capitalizing on the goodwill that his name retained as memory of the Seoul snafu faded. "I realized...
Launched in early February with the help of Haitian officials and aid groups like Save the Children, UNICEF's child registry is similar to one the organization created in South Asia after the tsunami in 2004. In the Indonesian territory of Aceh, the worst-hit area, aid workers took five months to compile the names of about 3,000 displaced children, 240 of whom were eventually reunited with a parent. Hundreds more went to live with relatives whom aid workers found by going door to door and matching information about birthmarks and other identifying details. Marie de la Soudi?...
Many of the credit-card changes signed into law last May by President Obama took effect Feb. 22. Some key provisions: retroactive interest-rate hikes are prohibited unless the account is more than 60 days past due, users can opt out of paying for overdraft protection, and annual or application fees cannot total more than 25% of the initial credit limit. While the changes provide more transparency for the consumer, analysts warn that banks may find loopholes for new fees to make up for lost revenue...
...hate about armed conflict. It would be hard not to. Based on interviews with 40 soldiers, most of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Untold War tells tales of mangled limbs and shattered minds, like one about an idealistic West Point prof who went to Iraq and took his own life in disillusionment. Given Sherman's training in psychoanalysis and philosophy, it is not surprising that her prose can grow alarmingly academic at times. (Many will not care that "the distance between an Aristotelian and Stoic-inspired training for war is considerable.") Yet she successfully makes the case that...
...weeks ago, Design School professors Allen Sayegh and Martin Bechthold took 12 of their graduate students to Armenia...