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...months so she wouldn't have to cough up the $200 she had pledged to an anti-charity. Because there's such an easy out, Karlan encourages people to assign an independent referee such as a friend or co-worker to monitor their progress. Next year, the site will begin partnering with corporations like Staples that want to use the platform to help motivate employees to achieve performance-related goals...
...General Stanley McChrystal, warned the White House last summer that the U.S. side was losing in Afghanistan and requested tens of thousands more troops to stop the Taliban's advance. After months of internal debate, Obama opted to send reinforcements, with the hopelessly optimistic caveat that they would begin to come home by mid-2011, when the U.S. would start to hand over responsibility to an Afghan national army that remains largely hypothetical by measure of an independent capability to fight the Taliban. Faced with a strategic choice in Afghanistan, Obama opted to escalate, as Bush would have done...
...Term will officially begin on Jan. 4, but we at FlyBy know better than anyone that it will be difficult to make the coming three weeks into anything other than a colossal waste of time. So, in the spirit of genuine or—who are we kidding?—feigned intellectualism, we've compiled a list of reading recommendations from several campus mailing lists. We've also provided, of course, the requisite value judgment on each title...
...work for a wide range of vehicle styles, including even small buses. It can also handle high volumes: up to 300,000 cars a year. He's already working closely with two large carmakers that are interested in the system - he won't divulge any details - and expects to begin a project with a third in January. He's also been in contact with engineering firms that want to get into auto-making. Murray sees no reason why other major brands, say Apple or Sony, couldn't license the technology to start making their own versions of fuel-efficient...
...Perhaps Crist's biggest asset is money. The conservative groundswell for Rubio has netted his campaign a surprising $1 million; Crist, however, has $5 million, which could begin raining down on his opponent early next year. After last week's Rasmussen poll, Rubio declared that as a result of "our campaign's growing momentum, voters are starting to realize that there are vast differences between me and Charlie Crist on a number of important issues." But Crist ads will question that assertion - as well as Rubio's record on matters like immigration reform and cap-and-trade policies to limit...