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...decent slug of my salary into my 401(k), and even though I spend a ridiculous percentage of my paycheck on housing - I do live in New York City - it's just a one-room apartment. I dropped my laptop and broke the screen a year ago; it still works, so I haven't replaced it. Helpful hint No. 2: ThinkPads are only slightly less rugged than soccer balls. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...which allowed six golfers to compete, with the top four contributing to the team total. Rookies Pollak and Connor Wentzell, sophomore Danny Amira, juniors Greg Shuman and Danny Mayer, and senior John Christensen filled the ranks for the Crimson. Andrew Patipaksiri, who transferred from New Mexico State two years ago, lowered his stroke average from 75.1 last season to 72.7 this season and led the Highlanders with a 74. But matching him stroke-for-stroke, the Crimson’s Pollak tied Patipaksiri for the tournament lead. “I was playing really well,” Pollak said...
This is the second year in a row that WWF has helped run a worldwide Earth Hour - the event began two years ago just in Australia) -- and participation has grown tremendously, from 400 cities in 2008 to some 4,000 this year. The image, at least, will be spectacular - monuments and skyscrapers switching off, a ring of darkness passing across the face of the planet. Though WWF is loosely overseeing Earth Hour, the protest - for lack of a better term - is a product of the age of social media, organized at the grassroots, with word spreading via Twitter and Facebook...
...Three Mile Island atomic reactor near Harrisburg hadn't melted down 30 years ago this Saturday...well, there probably would have been an accident somewhere else. The entire U.S. nuclear industry was melting down in the 1970s, irradiated by spectacular cost overruns, interminable delays and public outrage. Forbes later called its collapse "the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale...
...REYES: Organized crime here had infiltrated our police so deeply, and it was clear they didn't want a clean-up of the force. But it had to be done, and no other Mexican city has done such a widespread clean-up. And that caused the threats. Four weeks ago on a Sunday came the first public threat against me; but it was something we knew had been brewing for a while so I wasn't completely surprised or upset. I knew the consequences of the decisions I'd made...