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...Santa's workshop is anything but shipshape: sacks of bell-shaped ornaments cascade from tabletops, plastic buckets leak cartoon-colored chemicals onto the cement floor, and scattered tinsel is everywhere. Ding Hangjuan, a 43-year-old former peasant, kicks through the Yuletide wreckage. Ding set up her ornament factory in an abandoned schoolhouse six years ago to manufacture decorations for Christmas trees in the U.S. This year, Ding's 400 workers labored overtime to supply a brand-new market. "My buyers were once foreigners, but now 10% of what I make stays here in China," she says...
Lawler confessed that the scale of the production is larger than he had originally envisioned. “The plan was to workshop it when we got back [to Harvard], but it turned into something more elaborate...
...government’s history of promoting research on the medical benefits of marijuana is questionable at best. In February of 1997, a National Institutes of Health-sponsored workshop concluded that “in order to evaluate various hypotheses concerning the potential utility of marijuana in various therapeutic areas, more and better studies would be needed.” In March of 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a report that came to the same conclusion. Basically, the government acknowledged its ignorance...
...actually became struck by the fact that people very routinely talk about major writers, historical figures, episodes in history on the basis of what are very, very banal clichs," says Robinson, who lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and has taught at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop since 1991. "My impatience with that became so marked that I felt as if I couldn't say anything true until I had essentially re-educated myself." Which she did by reviewing virtually the entire Western canon...
...member Bridget Samuels ’04 says. She herself is a specialist in late 20th century Irish poetry and plans to “take a delegation to some of the Irish-medium events in the Boston area,” citing an upcoming Irish language and culture workshop called “La Gaeilge.” A local Celtic heritage organization, Ar d’Teanga Fein, runs the day-long seminar series...