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...boom times of the '90s were not just an economic story; they changed the lives of families too. Dads jetted around the country, moms could afford to give up their jobs, and families everywhere dreamed about new diplomas and big promotions. But family life was transformed again when the current slowdown began in March 2001. Two million Americans lost their jobs, while others saw their paychecks shrink. How is the changed economy affecting their emotional welfare? "Money is the physical manifestation of who you are. It defines you," says certified financial planner and best-selling personal-finance author Suze Orman...
...tentative enrolment numbers before students actually start attending class, would lull professors into thinking that their class size is predictable. It would discourage professors from making arrangements to hire last-minute TFs—which would be a disaster if a popular class’ size were to unexpectedly boom due to any variety of reasons. Many students choose some classes based largely on word-of-mouth, and sometimes, after hearing of a particularly talented professor, more even attend the second lecture of the year than the first. And certainly, between preregistration and the beginning of the semester, certain subject...
...today's heightened dangers, it is now hedged by tanks and more than 3.5-m concrete barriers. On Nov. 20, 2000, the Cohen children boarded their bus to the nearest school, in a settlement two miles away. The bus had barely left the compound when Cohen heard a thunderous boom. He rushed to the scene. By the time soldiers allowed him through, an ambulance had taken away three of his children. Inside the bus, Cohen saw the corpses of two adults. With that image in his mind, he drove fast to find his children at the hospital in Beersheba. Orit...
...whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying” for its implications...
...Jahrani had just come back from the morning's fishing. "We didn't catch anything. It was like the fish knew something was about to happen. I had tied up the boat and was walking to my home for a siesta, when there was an incredible boom and the ground felt like a giant was shaking it. I was knocked off my feet. Everyone was in shock for a minute or two, then people were screaming, 'Run, run, the water is coming!' Next thing I know, I'm swimming near the top of the mosque." He points...