Word: trended
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...Latest timepiece trend to entice luxury watchmakers and their avid clientele is sport watches. One of this year's stylish, not-to-be-missed introductions is the RPM collection from Canadian jeweler Birks. Available this fall at Birks in Canada and at Mayors, the company's sister chain in the U.S., the Swiss-made line?Birks' first new sport collection in five years?boasts four different adventure-ready versions, all for less than $1,300 each...
More generally, the quashing of Summers’ speech points to a troubling trend in academia. Increasingly, the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint opinions. In the present case, the culprits are academics who fashion themselves as progressives eager for social justice and tolerance, but the other side of the political spectrum is no less guilty in others. This situation is alarming and dangerous. If academic freedom cannot exist...
...happen now. The group he leads focuses on using China's growing wealth rather than calls for voluntary repatriation to bring the works back. Ho, an 85-year-old billionaire who made most of his fortune running a 40-year casino monopoly, is the most prominent example of the trend. "I hope this will encourage more people to join efforts in preserving China's cultural relics and nurture patriotic feelings," he said in a statement...
...Leach, 64, said his priorities as IOP director would be to increase student participation in the 2008 presidential primaries, and to continue the trend toward greater internationalization of the institute...
...similarly systematic work with other additives, we'd learn they, too, have implications for behavior," says Dr. James Perrin, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard. "Kids drink crazy things with colors that are almost flashing," he says. The study is one more reason to cheer the trend toward less processed, more natural fare...