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Throughout my time covering Harvard sports last year, the journalistic scenes may have been lacking for famous faces or nationally televised characters, but the athletic endeavors and the questions that followed always seemed real, even if low on the food chain...
...initiative builds on a health-insurance program Costco offers its small-business members. As 45 million Americans are unable to afford or obtain health insurance, retailers envision a vast market for individual policies. But experts are skeptical that even a giant chain like Costco can provide comprehensive, reasonably priced coverage to people who can't afford it now. Given that health-care costs are rising faster than working families' income, Costco's plan "may be a helpful Band-Aid," says E. Richard Brown, director of UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research. "But it won't stop the hemorrhaging." What...
...pizza in a cone. Eating a slice on the run can be messy, so food scientists have cooked up a new conical concept that is catching on in Europe and will soon hit the U.S. This summer Konopizza expects to open shops in Indonesia, Kuwait, Spain and Greece. The chain was founded by Rossano Boscolo, a well-known Italian chef, who prides himself on the fact that the shops' single servings are hustled out of a high-powered oven in just three minutes...
...captivating detour, why not go see just how exuberantly this previous generation of affluent Chinese spent its cash? The best place to start, just west of Kaiping, is the village of Zili, which has 15 blockhouses. The stately Mingshilou, built in 1925 by a family that owned a chain of general stores overseas, is now a museum; its top floor has a shrine surrounded by Roman columns. In nearby Xiangang you'll find the opulent Ruishilou, its upper floors a wedding cake of layered balconies. If you like the way the building's name looks on one of the walls...
Harvard Square lost another independent bookstore last fall, when WordsWorth Books went bankrupt, citing competition from internet sales and chain bookstores. Its children’s division remains open...