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...both. In You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career (Viking; $25.95), Katharine Brooks, Ed.D., points out that the way we usually approach career-planning is logical and linear - i.e., "I majored in political science, so I'll go to law school," or "I studied history, so I'll be a history teacher." With the economy in shambles, though, what seems straightforward to students (or their parents) may not be. Searching out other less obvious options, always a smart strategy, matters more now than ever. Brooks borrows from mathematical chaos theory to help new grads...
...seems natural for Peppelman and the rookie class. After benefitting from such high-level training and opportunities to compete right away, Peppelman and his classmates have tried to give something back, bringing a new focus and determination to a team that is only growing stronger as the EIWA Championships approach...
...backgrounds will prepare a set of recommendations to the President and the Council of Deans. Their recommendations will address the overall structure of the library system, possible technological changes, and ways to address the overlap of library services. “This is an opportunity to craft a different approach to the management of our libraries, one that takes into account the increasing interest in interdisciplinary research,” said Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline. “We need to better understand our colleagues’ needs, and we need to better understand how our users?...
...they might not be fully deductible for companies that provide them, and would be treated as income for the workers who receive them. Health-care experts say this would have the effect of encouraging more people to buy their insurance individually, rather than getting it where they work. This approach has been criticized by many Democrats - including Obama, when John McCain embraced a version of it during the election campaign - who contend that relying on the individual market would put health-care consumers at a disadvantage to big insurance companies...
...While the latest laws have been touted as a tough approach to food safety, China has already shown that it will take extreme measures against prominent violators. In 2007 the country executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration, for accepting $850,000 in bribes from drug companies. In January, a Chinese court sentenced two people to death in the melamine milk-poisoning scandal. But China's health ministry acknowledged over the weekend that the food-safety situation remains grim...