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Many of us really enjoyed CEB Turf. It was no work to them. And they killed it. CEB - you should be ashamed of yourselves. Please never call yourself ‘YOUR College Events Board’ ever again. You sure aren't MY College Events Board. MY College Events Board would never do something so cruel...
Besides the expert copy-editing at the Chicago Maroon, things aren't looking too good at UChicago. Each of the three divisions have taken a 25% budget cut, which has hit the smaller humanities departments especially hard, since the sciences already enjoy substantial outside funding. Their Slavic department is dying, with at most one graduate student matriculating next year. Ultimately the choice for the humanities division came down to hiring new faculty or accepting more graduate students--and they decided to focus on the former, reducing the size of their incoming graduate school class...
...system detects something that changes the fabric of everyday life, such as strains in the medical infrastructure or changes in the behavioral patterns of people if they aren't going to work or attending school," says Robert Hart, CEO of Veratect. Trained analysts then investigate suspicious reports to determine if additional investigations are needed or alarm bells should be raised. Veratect follows more than 200 diseases around the world in this way, and argues that its system of computer detection and human interpretation can give health officials enough of an early warning of potential disease outbreaks to ready the appropriate...
...also important, he says, to create a venue for people of different beliefs to figure out how religion fits into the rest of their lives. "How do we integrate having religious ethics in our modern society? How does faith fit into a secular legal system?" says Brown. "Muslims aren't the only ones with these problems." (Read more about the American phenomenon of church-shopping...
...many paintings and sculptures in Vietnam's national art museum are actually copies, nobody knows. But rumors have swirled for years that many treasured originals by Vietnamese artists like Niet have been either lost or sold off, and reproductions have taken their place. The copies aren't exactly forgeries. During the Vietnam War, the museum's own restoration department was a virtual copy factory - a fact that museum officials past and present freely admit...