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...temptation for Michigan to substantially increase its revenue by accepting more non-residents who are eager to attend has to be hard to resist. While speculating what would happen if the university moved to a private, market-based system, current president Mary Sue Coleman wrote in 2005 that "historically two-thirds of our applications have been from national or international students, and yet about two-thirds of our enrolled students have been from Michigan...
Advocates argue that keeping the children inside prison may also have positive effects on their convict parents. "Having a child near helps the parent reform his or her actions and be more eager to rehabilitate and readapt to society," Lopez adds, noting that Bolivian legislation on this issue was based on studies reflecting that trend. (See pictures of how boxing helps prisoners in Thailand...
...been one of the great thoroughfares of global commerce. In the old days of wood and sail, the 500-mile ribbon of water, which connects the Indian and Pacific oceans between Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, carried pricey spices from the islands of the Indies to the eager markets of the West. Today, about 40% of the world's trade passes through the strait on 50,000 vessels that ply its waters every year. Oil from the Persian Gulf flows east to China and Asia's other voracious economies, which in turn send back manufactured goods...
Needless to say, neither MI5, nor the Home Office, the government department that handles inquiries about the stealth agency, is eager to share the specifics of the role. The document detailing the job, circulated by Egon Zehnder International, a London-based headhunting firm, doesn't go beyond the vaguest of descriptions. The successful candidate will be responsible for "developing and owning a clear science, technology and innovation strategy for the Security Service", it reads, and "ensuring that [science] ... is soundly based...
It’s that time of year again: time for an infiltration of blaringly red folders and ubiquitous smiling faces. Yes, pre-frosh weekend has arrived—when eager, starry-eyed youngsters come to Harvard, still high on the rush of receiving their thick envelopes in the mail. Don’t get me wrong, I simply love spending my Saturday night with a kid smart enough to win the National Spelling Bee. Except when she comes back shit-faced from her first ever final club outing, only to puke all over my brand...