Word: columbia
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...that's really good, chefs are taking the wheel because working in a traditional kitchen sucks. "All these fine-dining restaurants work their cooks to the bone and pay them very little money, and the owners get rich," says Chang, who started his truck with a friend who attends Columbia's School of Business. Compared with restaurants, trucks have a lot less overhead, don't require managing a staff and focus on lunch, freeing chefs from working late nights and weekends. "I was a chef instructor here in Seattle for a year, and half the students don't want...
...dead zones. That's cause for concern as American farmers plant increasing amounts of corn, a crop that requires heavy fertilizer, to meet the growing global demand for grain and to supply America's corn-hungry ethanol makers. According to a separate study published by University of British Columbia and University of Wisconsin researchers this week in the Proceedings of the National Journal of Sciences, ethanol is directly linked to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. If farmers produced enough corn to meet the congressional goal of producing 15 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, nitrogen runoff into the Gulf...
Last year, Columbia eliminated loans for students whose families earn less than...
...from political stock - the New York State Senate seat he assumed in 1985 was formerly held by his father, Harlem political leader Basil Paterson. On the other, he is legally blind (a disability that did not prevent him from completing the New York City Marathon in 1999). When the Columbia University and Hofstra Law School graduate became the State Senate's minority leader in 2002, it marked the first time an African American assumed that position. As governor, Paterson will add to his groundbreaking record by becoming the state's first black chief executive, and just the fourth...
...going to provide bold leadership for the state? Probably not," says Justin Phillips, an expert on state government at Columbia University in New York City. But Phillips says a understated approach may suit Albany, where Spitzer's ferocity rankled. "Given his experience in the legislature, he'll take a more incremental approach to policy change. He'll get along better," Phillips says. "He'll probably be more effective than Spitzer. But New York government is characterized by gridlock. I don't know who could overcome that...