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These courses will need to cater to students whose focus is in the humanities and social sciences, in a College where no natural science exams are required for admission. More importantly, the subjects of these courses should shift along with trends in research, maintaining a forward-looking perspective and giving students the ability to participate productively in future social debates...
...three underground bunkers across the Hudson River in Weehawken, N.J. Plastic was peeled off standby PCs. Backup computer tapes were sent in by messenger. Plans were in place to reroute communications from international banking networks, but by the time the system was up, operators were hours behind. "You cater to the worst scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks, the bank--assisted by its Plano, Texas-based computer service provider EDS--had processed 19,000 transactions worth $14.3 billion, or nearly...
...citizen has the chance to buy an apartment from the government at cost and to take out a no-interest loan to pay for it. As a result, every Singaporean is a homeowner and has a stake in the society. The housing complexes contain take-out restaurants designed to cater to two-earner households, grocery stores, day-care centers, old-folks homes and other facilities designed to make the housing complexes into communities. An individual living in the complex can even resell the apartment on the private market to pay for a home somewhere else. We in the U.S. could...
...convenience store—a welcome development after Store24’s departure—with similarly late hours. Undergraduates’ sleep schedules do not resemble those of other city residents, and students in a college community deserve no less than other residents to have businesses that cater to their interests. After all, students are not in the habit of complaining to the City Council about noisy trucks resupplying early-morning breakfast shops that older residents frequent...
Underlying the problems is the very freedom from regulation that makes assisted living so attractive. This has allowed operators to cater to the aesthetic desires of their customers--to sport plush carpeting where nursing homes have only linoleum--and still keep costs down. The average nursing home, funded largely by Medicaid, costs nearly $4,000 a month. The average assisted-living facility, where residents typically pay out of their own pocket, costs about $1,800 a month. Disparities in regulation, though, leave seniors vulnerable to huge variations in everything from the quality of food to the number of registered nurses...