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...Senate takes up the bill up again - possibly as soon as December, or conceivably as late as 2009. But politicians are amazingly reluctant to oppose farm bills, because they don't want to be portrayed as enemies of the heartland of America, and they don't want to cross the powerful farm lobby...
...hours from platform 9? at London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...
...member but I certainly support them,” she says. Riverton made cupcakes for picketers on Los Angeles sets in a show of solidarity. The SAG website events list is riddled with picket-related gatherings, and many of Riverton’s fellow SAG members refused to cross picket lines for blacked-out network shows. The WGA is fully committed, and doesn’t plan to back down. “I think a lot of writers are mentally getting prepared for striking for a long time—months, not weeks,” says Melvoin...
...quantities—scores and grades, income, and even age being only a few examples of how individuals are judged on the basis of nothing more than a counting system—Penn’s book serves to magnify the differences rather than bridge any polarizing gaps between cross-cutting groups.But at least the numbers game accomplishes one goal: When you list every trend you see, you’re bound to get one right...
This year, the university has used a College Board pilot program which cross references zip code and census block information with search lists to find students who may qualify for HFAI. —Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...