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...summer changes in Mather and Dunster mark the last in a multi-year series of House dining hall renovations, and were the first to be done completely in line with the latest energy-efficient technology...
...multi-million rigs are reported to be free of their moorings and Royal Dutch Shell said its huge Mars platform, which pumps 220,000 barrels a day, is offline...
...rise again in Latin America for a reason, namely the burgeoning feeling around the region that a decade of U.S.-backed capitalist reforms has simply widened an already epic gap between rich and poor-and that the Bush Administration is indifferent to it. As Chavez uses his multi-billion-dollar oil revenues to fund the kind of social projects that Venezuela's legions of impoverished never saw from his kleptocratic predecessors-and to subsidize cheaper oil for his cash-strapped Latin neighbors-more people are willing to defend him, as most Latin leaders did last spring when Secretary of State...
...country of origin of the cultural goods," notes a 2004 United Nations report. It estimates the international trade in "looted, stolen or smuggled art" at $4.5 billion to $6 billion a year. In p.n.g., says museum director Eoe, the trade in illegal artifacts is probably "a multi-million-dollar business, but we don't really have any idea of the true extent...
...dinner; in Phoenix, Ariz. He came up with the idea as a marketer for poultry company C.A. Swanson & Sons, after seeing that Pan American Airways was developing a flat aluminum tray for hot in-flight meals. Since Swanson had a post-Thanksgiving bird surplus, he devised a multi-compartment tray for the turkey and accompanying side dishes. Introduced in 1954 with a package resembling a TV set, the dinners took off, selling 10 million that year and earning Thomas a raise, a spot on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and hate letters from husbands who wrote, he said, that...