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...spring of 1979, more than 100 faculty members signed a petition urging Harvard to sell its stakes in companies that conducted dealings with South Africa’s apartheid regime. Ultimately, Harvard divested itself from about a half-dozen companies...
...happy with our experience here," says Pawan Jaiswal, owner of Ybrant, which sells pillows and curtains. Every day thousands of Delhiites pour in to shop at the malls at Gurgaon, which has turned from a nondescript village into a sprawling city in a few years, thanks largely to its half-dozen malls. Indeed, the City Centre Mall shows that with the right blend of good design, top brand names and a central location, malls can be successful in India...
...bothered taking one. "Everyone in Delhi wants to be in IT right now. There are a hundred applicants for every post. It's impossible to get a job unless you have experience," he says. Pankaj Kamboj, a 22-year-old recent engineering graduate who has come with a half-dozen friends from the neighboring state of Haryana, complains: "We've traveled 200 km for nothing. There are no software positions here, only call-center jobs...
...Exploring Saturn With its half-dozen sensitive instruments, the Huygens probe is designed to study the atmosphere and surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Read explanations of each separate instrument here...
...recommended that the University create a third science campus, while he oversaw the creation of a half-dozen new science initiatives and embraced sweeping proposals to reinvigorate undergraduate science education...