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Karl: Class consciousness is depressingly low. The near collapse of the global financial system signals the inevitable clash of capitalist nations. Time to publicly acknowledge it. What better way to begin a workers revolution than to name the dog after the Man himself...
...Most students belong to organizations or networking groups that have Facebook pages.) "It's a way for incoming freshmen to see that the Greek system is not what it's perceived to be, not just a place to party. We do other functions. Our real mission is trying to better ourselves and make lifelong friends rather than party 24/7." (See the best social networking applications...
DARPA says the Pentagon needs the vastly improved rifle because the use of snipers has ballooned from 250 to 800 annually. The sharpshooters require extensive and expensive training - all of which could be reduced with a better gun. Snipers "are unable to take a shot the vast majority of the time" because of wind or other weather factors, and a lack of confidence in their ability to hit the target or flee if detected. Those shortcomings could be greatly reduced by the new longer-range rifle. How much longer range? "Specific system performance objectives (e.g., range, accuracy and target speed...
...service. But certainly early on it was all about, "What are you going to take?" If you were a revenue officer who was shutting down businesses and seizing cars you tended to advance quicker than the revenue officer who signed installment agreements. The more risks you took, the better you tended...
...achieve "universal proficiency" in reading and math - but allowed each to define what that meant. The result was that many states made their job easier by setting their bar lower. This race to the bottom resulted in a Lake Wobegon world where every state declared that its kids were better than average. Take the amazing case of Mississippi. According to the standards it set for itself, 89% of its fourth-graders were proficient or better in reading, making them the best in the nation. Yet according to the random sampling done every few years by the National Assessment of Educational...