Word: duckness
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...officials said in 1954 that continued maid service would cost the school $150,000 a year—or about $1.04 million in 2005 dollars—students can now summon a worker to wash their laundry for $19.95. Now fresh and folded clothes join pepperoni pizza and Peking duck among the items that students can have delivered straight to their doors. The student-run start-up DormAid, in its continued effort to compete with the well-established Harvard Student Agencies Cleaners, launched the “A La Carte Laundry and Room Cleaning Service” this past weekend...
...before they even enter it. By allowing these restrictions to continue, the U.S. is not only harming these newly-minted graduates, but is robbing the U.S. skilled labor market of many of its most willing and able young professionals. With elections on the horizon, we hope that a lame duck Congress will act on legislation that will expand on the U.S.’s H1-B visa program.The number of individuals granted H-1B status is capped at 65,000 annually. Acquiring an H-1B visa requires proof of graduation from college and a sponsoring U.S. employer, and allows...
...Laureate” contest, and a new mini-opera entitled “Inertia Makes the World Go Round,” the ceremony found time to recognize past Ig Nobel celebrities. 2003 winner C.W. Moeliker, who documented the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, was on hand along with Lisa R. Danielson and William L. Sefanov who were married at the 2001 complexity-themed Ig Nobels. With annual traditions like the launching of paper airplanes constructed from science homework and ceremony programs, the Ig Nobels work to emphasize the lighter side of science. While...
...election in 2004, his political machine launched a sophisticated, expensive and largely unnoticed campaign aimed at maintaining G.O.P. majorities in the House and Senate. If that campaign succeeds, it would defy history and political gravity, both of which ordain that midterm elections are bad news for a lame-duck President's party, especially when the lame duck has low approval ratings. As always, a key part of the campaign involves money--the national Republican Party is dumping at least three times as much into key states as its Democratic counterpart is--but money is only the start. "Panic results when...
...keeping my fingers crossed that this fall will offer some truly delectable fare. Martin Scorcese’s “The Departed” boasts the skills of Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio while Emilio Estevez’s—who knew the Mighty Duck man himself was still around?—“Bobby,” an account of how RFK’s assassination affected various people’s lives, features just about every talented yet struggling actor in L.A. Personally, I’m waiting for the “WARNING...