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...stay humble. "If you tell people Kang Shifu is a company that makes good coffee, they will never believe it," he says (coffee being too foreign and expensive-sounding). "So our brand extension is limited by our customers." But those customers have been great for Tingyi, especially amid the uncertain economy of 2009, when it was a distinct advantage to be dealing in low-cost goods. For the first nine months of the year, Tingyi's revenues climbed 20% to more than $4 billion. (See portraits of Chinese workers...
Around this time every year, a crucial question looms over campus. It descends upon uncertain freshmen, who confer and conjecture about it with their blocking groups. It provokes some upperclassmen, hearts aflame with House spirit, to bristle at the smallest slight towards their Houses. Everyone wants to know but claims to know one thing—which of Harvard’s 12 residential Houses is the best...
...also waiting for the ferry, to join them. Thus begins a road trip of Really Bad Ideas: young girl with daddy issues, ex-con and weirdo on an anywhere-but-here journey. That New Orleans emerges as one possible destination makes perfect sense. It's as wrecked and uncertain as these travelers...
...outcome of the match is still uncertain, but one thing is clear: the Crimson’s confidence going into the match tomorrow. Pulling off the win against the Hoyas will prove it is a team to be recokoned with this season...
...study highlights the difficulty in treating dying children. Parents find it intolerable to witness their child in pain. Yet few parents, understandably, wish to concede that their child's illness is incurable. And that reluctance, combined with an uncertain outlook for many pediatric cancers, makes it much more difficult for caregivers to map out end-of-life treatment plans for seriously ill children. "An uncertain prognosis should be a signal to initiate, rather than to delay, palliative care," wrote the authors of a 2008 study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, Children's Hospital, on pediatric palliative practices...