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...that the 740 students of Willard Elementary are broken up about it. The K-4 school is so old and overcrowded that Marion Stern teaches reading in a converted bathroom; Riel Sbar teaches special-needs kids in a hallway; and two other classes have been pushed into dusty corners of the basement. The acting principal, Dianne Scott, wears sneakers to hike to annexes No. 8 and No. 3, which are more than four blocks away, but hip waders would have been better during a storm on May 24. The playground flooded, and she had to pull two classes...
Scrubbing bathroom floors, sweeping corners and vacuuming rugs, the workers earn a minimum of $8.85 per hour. One 40-hour week of work for those 390 employees costs the College's Houses and Yard operations a total of $138,060. Typically, however, those employees work significantly longer hours, racks up higher costs for Harvard in overtime wages...
Scrubbing bathroom floors, sweeping corners and vacuuming rugs, the workers earn a minimum of $8.85 per hour. One 40-hour week of work for those 390 employees costs the College's Houses and Yard operations a total of $138,060. Typically, however, those employees work significantly longer hours, racking up higher costs for Harvard in overtime wages...
...CONTACT" tour of the shuttle began when a smiley, peachy-cheeked Ride made a bee-line for the bathroom. Peeing in space: the timeless stuff of which third grade humor is made, no doubt prompted conjectures amongst Ride's under-age audience at homes across America concerning fluid volume weightlessness. But Ride explained the mechanics well enough that it became evident, even to us minors, that women couldn't use the standard apparatus. But that's all the mothership offered. No ladies room; zero gravity. Not known for cliffhangers, "3-2-1 CONTACT" suddenly had its target demographic male...
...aside. We need to become the Sally Rides of our own generation, renovating health care and workplace systems tailored to men's life patterns, not to mention the workplaces themselves. Sally set me wondering, and the process never quite stopped. After all, somebody had to have designed that shuttle bathroom. The why's abound...