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...were worried about Amber's life," says Jody Ozier, Amber's mother, regarding her decision to send her daughter to Mount Bachelor. But after hearing Amber's account of her experiences, she says, "I couldn't believe that they did that. I see where it's done her mental harm...
Walruses are interesting because the last census on them was done in 1990, when they estimated that there were about 200,000 walrus. But how do you account for walruses? They did it via airplane, by flying over them and literally counting them. You have to make sure you're counting them all but not double-counting. When you don't have an accurate baseline you don't have a good understanding of how the species works and what the threat is. Walrus are an ice-dependent species so there are also climate change concerns. The loss...
...past couple years, I have used the account for the sole purpose of accumulating 'friends'," Mankiw wrote. "Now, Facebook tells me that I have reached my upper limit! So there is little point in keeping the account." More of FlyBy's take after the jump...
...Compensation costs account for nearly half of our operating budget,” he wrote. “[It] is increasingly likely that Harvard...will have to make changes to the size of its workforce...
Today marks two years since Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and wounded many others at Virginia Tech in the deadliest single-gunman shooting in U.S. history. In her new book, No Right to Remain Silent, Lucinda Roy gives the first comprehensive account of that day. Then the head of the school's English department, Roy alerted school authorities about Cho's troubling behavior after first encountering him eighteen months prior to the shooting. TIME's Laura Fitzpatrick spoke with Roy about her memories of the gunman and how she thinks we can prevent such a tragedy from happening again...