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Afew years ago, Chris Devonshire-Ellis, a Beijing-based business and tax consultant, was in the bar at Pyongyang's Koryo Hotel when he ran into another foreigner. "The guy's name was Vlad," Devonshire-Ellis says. "He'd come from Moscow on a train to sell tractors to the North Koreans. He had all these guys around him. Turns out, they were his team of bodyguards. The North Koreans paid him in cash--1 million in U.S. dollars--and that's why he needed the bodyguards. He was comfortable doing business with the North Koreans. He said they always...
...We’re going to build an engineering school for the 21st century,” Venky said. “It will still be a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences because we are not going to train specialized engineers. What we want to have as our focus for the undergraduates is the broadly educated person, who’s comfortable in communications, who understands the societal issues...
What may be most interesting about the increase in the number of boomers (and in some cases even their parents) who participate in marathons is that the movement seems to have staying power. Research from Yale University, Johns Hopkins and elsewhere shows that people over 50 who train regularly gain muscle strength and can improve their performance, relative to their potential, faster than people in their 20s. Put another way, it's easier for boomers to slow their biological clock than it is for, say, their kids. Now, that's incentive...
...renovation, St. Pancras will reopen on Nov. 14 as London's new gateway to the Continent, replacing Waterloo Station as the Eurostar terminal. The new location will shave 20 minutes off the travel time to central Paris and better integrate Europe's high-speed rail network with Britain's train system...
...21st century St. Pancras aspires to more than efficiency. Ben Ruse, spokesman for the redevelopment, expects it will become a popular destination "whether you're getting on a train or not," much like New York's Grand Central is today. Restaurants, shops and a daily farmers' market crowd the red-brick arches leading to the Rendezvous, an airy social space adjacent to the 13 train platforms. There, guests can admire The Meeting Place, a 30-ft. (9 m) high bronze statue of two travelers locked in an embrace, or mingle at a dazzling 295-ft. (90 m) champagne bar - Europe...