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...junior Tommy Picarsic put up a strong fight at 133 lbs and only fell to Brown’s Jeff Schell by a 2-0 margin, bringing the team score to 0-9. At 149 lbs, J.P. O’Connor continued his season-long brilliance, earning another major decision to cut the score to 4-15, also pushing his record to 11-0 in dual action (20-1 overall). The third-ranked sophomore has been a success story in a trying year for the Crimson, and O’Connor has promising opportunities in individual competition at the Eastern...
...your mouth to sense all the other flavors that linger beneath, including a certain sweetness that is more rewarding than the pure candy of milk chocolate.OLIVESIf you must embrace the childish eating aesthetic, olives provide you with a convenient opportunity to put your fingers in your mouth. But to earn that privilege again, you must first eat the olive. Remembrances of cheap salads past might give you pause, but whole olives from the bottle—or in a dish—are much juicier and more complex than their dining hall cousins. So purchase a jar, starting with...
...making sure economic growth continues, and that the benefits of that growth are spread widely. More than anything, this is what gives the communist leadership legitimacy. All across China, towns like New Songjiang are built on the backs of migrant workers - people who have moved from other provinces to earn better money as construction workers. An estimated 114 million workers in China now are migrants, and roughly 15% work on construction sites throughout the country, usually far from their home towns or villages. Unlike manufacturing work, where millions of unskilled workers have full-time jobs, the migrants building China...
...There's little research on what makes for a successful merit-pay system, but several factors seem critical, says Matthew Springer, director of the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University. Denver's program includes many of them: a careful effort to earn teacher buy-in to the plan, clarity about how it works, multiple ways of measuring merit, rewards for teamwork and schoolwide success, and reliable financing. In fact, Denver's voters agreed to pay an extra $25 million a year in taxes for nine years to support the program...
...work in Denver's most troubled schools. Jake Firman, 22, who joined Teach for America right out of college in 2007, says he chose Denver from a list of 26 cities largely because of ProComp. "I thought it was a very cool idea," says Firman, who stands to earn extra pay for filling a hard-to-staff spot (middle-school math) at a high-needs school...