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...more applications, the selection process will not necessarily be less rigorous.“The challenges that corps members face are immense,” she said. “TFA is selective for that reason.”Joshua Z. Biber, a former corps member and graduate of Brown University, who is now the TFA recruiter for the greater Boston area, felt similarly. “TFA is not to be anyone’s back-up plan,” he said. “It needs to be the thing that moves you through every day, that...
...Though it’s well known that humans express phenotypes for characteristics like brown hair or blue eyes, far fewer people know that tuberculosis also generates different phenotypic states...
...decides against Kennedy, Paterson could name an upstate candidate with downstate appeal, like popular Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African-American Democrat who could win over liberal voters in New York City. (Brown garnered 6% overall in the Marist poll and 10% among upstate voters.) State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, besides polling even with Kennedy in the Marist survey, offers Paterson another benefit. The "accidental" governor - who replaced Eliot Spitzer after his resignation amid a highly publicized sex scandal - will have to run for his own office in 2010, and Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary...
...Rationing in Britain during and after World War II meant people ate more simple foods, says Day. Families stopped passing on their offal recipes, and people eventually became squeamish about such dishes. "We became a nation of muscle-devourers, confining our carnivorous activities to the brown stuff that came in neat, little polystyrene trays with some cling-film over the top of it to make it look neat and tidy," he says. Many types of offal, especially brains, were banned when mad-cow disease struck in the late 1990s. Day says the revival now might be a sign of people...
...gilded walls of Lancaster House could speak, they would surely have interrupted Monday's meeting there to rebuke Gordon Brown for failing to invite Angela Merkel. Britain's Prime Minister was joined at the elegant mansion in London by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and E.U. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to discuss concerted European efforts to tackle the economic downturn, but there was no place at the table for the German Chancellor...