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...freshman housing lottery used punchcards and five separate programs to put first-years in their preferred residences in only 13.9 seconds. This move stirred fears of bias toward alumni children and athletes, and the card-sorting process was overseen by two students to “check everything themselves, if they wish,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman...
...bigger challenge for FIFA is that in their current form, the proposals are flat-out illegal, because they flout the European Union's rules permitting workers the freedom of movement among member states. FIFA's plan drew a "red card" from Vladimir Spidla, E.U. Employment Commissioner, ahead of the Sydney meeting...
...just a product of luck. We can do far more than we think to improve our odds of preventing and surviving even the most horrendous of catastrophes. It's a matter of preparation - bolting down your water heater before an earthquake or actually reading the in-flight safety card before takeoff - but also of mental conditioning. Each of us has what I call a "disaster personality," a state of being that takes over in a crisis. It is at the core of who we are. The fact is, we can refine that personality and teach our brains to work more...
...have a lot to risk when they're getting started. Consider the history of the U.S.'s fastest-growing firms: 73% of them were started with less than $100,000 in capital. That's clearly in Cook's "go back to work, and pay off the credit card" range. And contrary to what most people imagine, most new businesses are not started with risky, new-to-the-world ideas like those of eBay and Google, which promise to transform the way we buy things. Cook reported that when his company launched its Quicken software program, there were already 46 similar...
...rest of the faculty at Berkeley are extremely delighted that Christina and David decided to stay,” said David E. Card, a prominent labor economist...