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...claims were “categorically not true” and that this was a “matter between AlliedBarton and their employees.” Leaving the Holyoke Center plaza Friday, protestors marched to Memorial Hall while chanting “Harvard, escucha—Estamos en una lucha,” meaning in Spanish, “Harvard, listen—we are in a fight,” acknowledging the many Latino security guards on Harvard’s campus. Another refrain was, “What’s outrageous? Security guard?...
...London and North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, to recruit managers to coordinate stem-cell research and development so their economies can benefit from potential breakthroughs in the estimated $56 billion market for stem-cell biology and applications. "Almost every major city is trying to set up stem-cell work," says Una Chen, head of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the University of Giessen in Germany. "It's a boom." So, for example, scientists in Sweden are studying how stem cells might be used to treat Parkinson's disease. A Belgian team is investigating whether they might be used to treat...
...that he is - more incomprehensibly - simply lying. At least one former acquaintance of Karr's considers this a distinct possibility. Janice Myhan, a professor of education at the University of North Alabama, says Karr was prone to telling outlandish lies. Myhan taught and advised Karr when he attended UNA from 1998 to 2000, where he majored in early childhood education. Karr was diminutive and intense, Myhan recalls, and frequently peppered her with questions from the front row, stopping her in mid-sentence to get her to repeat her words, so he could copy them in his notes. He carried...
...DIED. Rocio Jurado, 61, flamboyant singer whose blend of flamenco, folk and romantic ballads earned her the mantle "Spain's greatest"; in Madrid. Jurado recorded over 30 albums, five of which went platinum, and appeared in several films. Best known for the mesmerizing song Como una Ola (Like a Wave), she was also popular in Latin America and the U.S., where she performed at the White House for then President Ronald Reagan...
...hotel rooms, called the Lute Suites. Dutch designer Marcel Wanders contributed to the simultaneously modern and classical dcor with pieces like his white neo-baroque SoapStars bathroom accessories. And Italian glassware firm Bisazza hired Marco Braga to reinvent a Venetian tradition in the entrance hall of Florence's Una Vittoria Hotel. On a computer, Braga designed a 54-hue floral mosaic made of sintered glass cubed tiles...