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...productivity by growing food on idle farms. In reality, though, human-rights advocates say the army has begun seizing food from peasant farmers, raising fears that this year's harvest will be confiscated to feed soldiers and tighten control over rural opposition strongholds. "All basic foods are now under direct military control," says Eddie Cross, an economist and adviser to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The latest exercise - dubbed Operation Taguta/ Sisuthi or "eat well" - has been disastrous, according to a report released last month by the Solidarity Peace Trust, a South African human-rights group. The group says...
...rise above this.Jesse J. Snell of Blackstone, Mass., calls his new job a “noble profession.”“No matter what you’re doing, 10 percent are bad,” he says about every profession, adding that as a direct reflection of the University, they must be held to a high standard.Snell is a former member of the U.S. Marines Corps with a degree in criminology from Honolulu University. “Community policing is the focus of the new generation,” he says. At this, he adds...
...authority relegated to the CEB, will be left impotent and without a mandate. As for the prospect of an OSC, every UC member should be responsible for reaching out to his/her constituents, as part of his/her representative duty. Creating such a committee would exculpate our elected representatives from direct accountability to our interests. Moreover, it seems ironic and disingenuous that the UC is discussing the creation of an outreach committee without reaching out to the student body on the subject.The “services” component of the proposed OSC is an equal embodiment of futility. The UC (specifically...
...moms fill out time diaries, chronicling how they allocate their minutes. This research makes an important distinction between accessible time and engaged time. Accessible time is when the parent is present, but the kid is playing or watching television while mom cooks and cleans. Engaged time is direct interaction - snuggling, talking, reading books, eating together, and checking homework. A fascinating report on this came out last week from Suzanne Bianchi at the University of Maryland. She concluded that a working mom engages with her child 42 minutes less per day than a stay-at-home...
...average only 42 minutes difference, when mom is home for nine hours. Remember that stay-at-home moms send their children to school, and often to after-school enrichment programs. Working moms, meanwhile, really kick it up a notch when they come home. They pack a ton of direct interaction into those three hours before bedtime...