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...Then fortunes turned. Demand for Crocs, which are named after a crocodile because they can be worn on both land and in the water, began to cool in early 2008. Throw in the global downturn and sales tumbled 15% to $721.5 million in 2008, leading to a loss of $185 million, following a profit of $168 million a year earlier. Its share price plummeted from a high of $74 in November 2007 to a low of just $1.05 last November. It was, says John Duerden, Crocs' chief executive, "the perfect storm." (See pictures of 23 years of Air Jordans...
...Harvard men’s water polo team returned home to Blodgett Pool last night after a string of away games, and defeated CPWA opponent, the Connecticut College Camels...
...bulk of our emissions today,” says Heather A. Henriksen, Director of OFS. “And new buildings will add new emissions, no matter how efficient they are,” .To be LEED-certified, buildings must be environmentally friendly in terms of sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy performance, materials, and indoor environmental quality. While all new buildings and renovations planned at Harvard will follow LEED guidelines, it would be impossible to tear down the buildings in Harvard Yard, which is protected as a historic district, in the name of the environment. Instead, the OFS works with...
...weeks ago, a well-known U.S. military expert gave a wise speech about the near impossibility of making a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy work in Afghanistan. He gave two examples. The first was digging a well: "How could you do anything wrong by digging a well to give people clean water?" Well, you could create new enemies by where you dug the well and who controlled it. You could lose a village by trying to help it. And then there was the matter of what he called COIN mathematics. If there are 10 Taliban and you kill two, how many...
...After a promising start, business collapsed during the Palestinian intifada uprising. The Khoury brothers weathered the storm but new restrictions at the Israeli security barrier have now turned what used to be an hour-long delivery to Tel Aviv into an expensive two-day journey. Even the fresh water piped from a spring two miles away is under Israeli control and only flows for half the week. (See a brief history of oktoberfest...