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...long sought to reduce these inefficiencies. Two years ago, administrators began working with pre-semester estimates to reduce the number of TFs hired at the last minute to accommodate larger-than-expected classes. According to Harris, TFs who are hired after the semester has begun are often among the lowest rated in the Q Guide...
Time after time the ball sailed his way, and with an emphatic swing Erik Kuld proved that he was finally ready to take over. The Harvard men’s volleyball co-captain began the season with big shoes to fill, looking to spearhead an offense that graduated prolific outside hitter Brady Weissbourd ’09, and after a week of leading the Crimson to two victories—and leading the squad in kills—Kuld appears to have found his stride...
...Several years ago, Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku ward began a lonely-death awareness campaign. It hosts social events to draw people from their apartments, distributes a newsletter to the elderly and monitors their well-being by, for example, checking to make sure they're taking out their trash. Other wards have followed suit, but as accurate lonely-death statistics are often unavailable, success is difficult to measure. "If you live alone, it's inevitable that you may die alone," says Yoko Yokota, assistant supervisor of the ward's division for senior-citizen services. "What Shinjuku ward wants...
...1990s, Taichi Yoshida, the owner of a small moving company in Osaka, Japan, began noticing that many of his jobs involved people who had just died. Families of the deceased were either too squeamish to pack up for their dead relatives, or there wasn't any family to call on. So Yoshida started a new business cleaning out the homes of the dead. Then he started noticing something else: thick, dark stains shaped like a human body, the residue of liquids excreted by a decomposing corpse...
...years cost organizers just $300,000, and participation rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur, a 23-year-old from Keonjhar district in Orissa, lost her first baby to a bacterial infection. She began attending the meetings with her mother-in-law, learning, she says, to "go for checkups, take iron and get a Tetanus shot." Last year she gave birth to a healthy girl...