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...month of July, and administrators combined the Office of Residential Life and Office of Student Life and Activities into a single office while downsizing staff. The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which gives advice to faculty and teaching fellows, is also struggling after a 40 percent budget cut and a halving of its staff...
...cuts hit schools across the University, including the Kennedy School, the Business School, and the Law School. The Medical School also eliminated roughly 17 staff positions, and four staff members were given reduced schedules. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes the College and is Harvard’s largest school, laid off 77 staffers and cut work hours for 15 others...
...recent U.S. takeout of Taliban big cheese Baitullah Mehsud has predictably fired up these drone proponents, who see it as a clear-cut success story and a case for upping the number of UAVs. What’s more surprising, perhaps, is that the counterarguments have been so few and so thin. It’s the specifics, rather than the supremacy of the drone approach itself, that have come under attack. Pakistanis decry U.S. counterterrorist strikes in their country as a “violation of sovereignty” (apparently, contracting out assassination missions to third parties isn?...
...robot was to be used to perform area reduction in uncharted territory. Area reduction is the first phase of any demining project where a large area is reduced to smaller plots of suspected regions. Since area reduction is done in lands abandoned for decades, current techniques require deminers to cut and burn the vegetation. Our effort was to develop a low-cost robotic platform that could assist in area reduction while eliminating the need to damage vegetation. Since moving through tropical vegetation is extremely challenging for a robotic platform, the prototype robot had to be tested in an affected region...
...Praising China's use of moral suasion to persuade the banks to cut back on lending instead of resorting to the blunt instrument of raising interest rates, ING sees GDP returning to its trend growth of 10% next year. The Shanghai index now "rests two standard deviations below the trend line that starts in early November 2008, which we consider strong support," says ING chief economist Tim Condon. "We do not expect the support to be broken...