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Then France's Foreign Minister Roland Dumas delivered a harsh warning to the agency's director general, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow. Dumas said that reforms of the Paris-based organization are "without doubt an indispensable guarantee for the survival of UNESCO. It is now up to the director general to establish a plan and a calendar in order to apply them." The message was significant because France had not only lobbied against U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO late last year but had agreed to contribute an extra $2 million to help make up for the loss of $43 million a year...
Most threatening of all, perhaps, is the imminent prospect of numerous retirements. The average age of American teachers has risen to an estimated 40 to 43, and in the next five years, 30% to 50% of the instructors are expected to bow out. The retirement trend has been accelerated in some part by recent efforts to upgrade qualifications. This spring, for example, Arkansas imposed a very unpopular competency test on all its teachers. And though results released last month showed that only 10% had flunked various sections of the exam, one union official said the test had a "devastating effect...
...conference, Jones said he hopes the program will help him refine the business aspect of his bow tie company...
...HUPD assisted Cambridge Police Department (CPD) in the search for the perpetrator of an alleged assault on Bow Street. The officers were unable to locate the assailant...
...female undergraduate was assaulted on Wednesday night while walking on Bow Street near Adams House, and she reported to police that she defended herself by kneeing the suspect in the groin and attempting to punch him before fleeing the scene...