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...attempt to find prime locations for its own restaurants as it expands across Russia. He's trying to turn McPeak and Sunday into national brands, and he recently set up a bread factory in Moscow that will supply what he hopes will become a nationwide bakery chain. This winter he took his top managers away to Thailand for a management-strategy retreat. One of its conclusions: his firm, Malachite, will need to hire about 3,000 new staff and should consider creating its own training school. All these entrepreneurs say that official corruption is a hazard of doing business...
Even after an unusually mild winter, the return of spring to North America feels like a blessing. Parents are dragging their toddlers to the park. Students are dusting off their Frisbees. And bird watchers, armed with binoculars and guidebooks, are heading out to search for their favorite species...
Those agile, acrobatic birds spend the winter in West Africa and return to their Netherlands nesting grounds in the spring to lay eggs. When their hatchlings emerge, the parents feed them mostly with caterpillars. The timing of the flycatchers' migration has evolved over many thousands of years to coincide with an approximately three-week period after Dutch plants have flowered and caterpillars are most abundant...
Kirby, who resigned in January under pressure from University President Lawrence H. Summers, acknowledged the “unexpectedly challenging” events and “often tumultuous discussions” of this winter and last spring...
...China.”In search of viable economic opportunities that could solve China’s development challenges, they decided to focus on rural communities in western China, an area they felt had been left out of China’s rapid economic development.BACK TO THE YAK Over winter break, Chyau and So traveled to China’s western province Yunnan, where they wanted to launch an education program via a “movie bus.” The program would disseminate information to poor villages on issues such as health care and agricultural practices. But they...