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...benefit from the impractical idealism of the World Bank proposal. The bill has had so many "protections" for American companies added by the U.S. textile lobby that many of the bill's original benefits now cannot be realized. The most harmful new stipulation is that African companies hoping to gain duty-free access to the U.S. textile market must buy American fabrics. The cost of buying and then shipping the fabric to Africa would be so prohibitively expensive that only the largest companies could afford to do so. Indeed, the most likely scenario is that textile factories currently using cheap...
...brand-new facility should help the tennis program gain national recognition. The 500-person seating capacity does not detract from the intimate feeling at the Beren Center, but it certainly has the potential of transforming Crimson tennis into a popular attraction...
...first completely artificial turf field with full lighting, the natural grass fields will not be relied upon as heavily, thus easing scheduling congestion and lessening the effects of the changeable Cambridge weather. Harvard's intramural program may also gain limited use of the new field...
...FACTS Accounting firms report that day traders are getting into tax trouble because they don't know the law. Yes, the maximum capital gains rate is 20%. But it applies only to long-term holdings--at least a year. Otherwise, the gain is income and taxed up to 39.6%. The lesson: it may be worth sitting on a stock a little longer to qualify it as a long-term holding. Even if the stock falls, say, 25%; and you're in the top bracket, you'll probably break even because the lower tax rate will offset the price...
...test for replication with time-honored procedures that scientists call controlled experiments--artificially simplified situations manipulated by human observers to guarantee (within the best of our ability) an exact repetition of all timings, forces and substances. If we achieve the same result in each of several replications, we then gain confidence that we may be witnessing a predictable generality based upon a law of nature. This search for replicates underlies the efforts--and partial successes--of scientists to synthesize living matter from the presumed chemical constituents in the "primordial soup" of the earth's original oceans. Can we create some...