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...MARKET DAYS A bone-jarring two-day jeep ride across Kyrgyzstan's border with China lies Kashgar, a hub on the Silk Road for more than a millennium. Camel trains laden with tea and textiles would emerge from the Taklamakan Desert, meeting other traders descending from the lofty Pamir Mountains, all survivors of terrible deprivation and brigandage. The glory days might be long gone but so are the bandits, and Kashgar welcomes ordinary tourists eager to see Central Asia's most spectacular market...
Today and yesterday, the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at the Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government is hosting a conference, “What Next for School Vouchers?” The two-day symposium brings an impressive cadre of educational, legal, and public policy experts to assess the future of school choice reforms in the wake of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris—the June U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed the constitutionality of vouchers in Cleveland schools. The conference is helping to clarify the debate about school vouchers...
They call this "practice." And safety experts say many more drills like this one are needed. My New Mexico maneuvers were part of a two-day program sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and backed by the Air Line Pilots Association to teach pilots how to prevent "loss of control" incidents, now the No. 1 cause of airline fatalities. There is an urgency to this approach: the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which killed 265 in November 2001, is considered a loss of control, perhaps triggered when the plane hit the wake of a jumbo jet while departing...
When Undergraduate Council elections finally began early yesterday morning after a two-day delay, it seemed the council’s problems were over...
Still, Chiampa’s round—the best of anyone on Sunday—enabled Harvard to finish one stroke ahead of both Long Island and the Crimson’s previous best score for a two-day tournament...