{"id":109,"date":"2005-12-26T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/12\/26\/news-you-may-have-missed-in-2005\/"},"modified":"2005-12-26T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T17:09:27","slug":"news-you-may-have-missed-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/12\/26\/news-you-may-have-missed-in-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"News You May Have Missed in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a153'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>At a new theme park in El Alberto,<br \/>\nMexico (near Mexico City), wannabe migrants to the United States can<br \/>\ntest their survival skills at an obstacle course that replicates the<br \/>\nrigors migrants must endure while sneaking across the border. Admission<br \/>\nprice: about $13.50.<br \/>\n<i>&#8211;Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 20<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yamaha Corp. introduced the MyRoom, a customizable, soundproof,<br \/>\nshed-like structure with 27 square feet of floor space, to install<br \/>\ninside notoriously crowded Japanese homes, for privacy (or to be exiled<br \/>\nto). The company expects a sales surge in 2006, when Japan&#8217;s first wave<br \/>\nof baby-boom salarymen retire and begin annoying their spouses at home.<br \/>\n<i>&#8211;Times (London), May 27<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five Greenpeace activists rushed onto the floor of the<br \/>\nInternational Petroleum Exchange in London intending to paralyze oil<br \/>\ntrading on the day the Kyoto environmental initiative took effect, but<br \/>\nseveral traders turned on them, punching and kicking the protesters<br \/>\nuntil they ran for their lives. (One activist was hospitalized with a<br \/>\nsuspected broken jaw, another with a concussion.) Said one understated<br \/>\nGreenpeacer, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our<br \/>\npoint of view.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i>&#8211;Associated Press, Feb. 16; <\/i><i>Times (London), Feb. 17<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a new theme park in El Alberto, Mexico (near Mexico City), wannabe migrants to the United States can test their survival skills at an obstacle course that replicates the rigors migrants must endure while sneaking across the border. Admission price: about $13.50. &#8211;Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 20 Yamaha Corp. introduced the MyRoom, a customizable, soundproof, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheap-shots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}