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...Harvard alumni, the newly-formed Ivy Key SAT preparation company may seem a bit exclusive at first glance. After all, its stated hiring policy is to “only select tutors who have either graduated from or are currently attending an Ivy League school or institution of equal quality.” But founders Chris L. McConnell ’08 and Jae R. Gardner ’07 were determined to assist students lacking financial and academic resources when they created the company in January of 2009. The company has a for-profit private tutoring program that funds...
...fanned across Burma, setting up trading companies and filling downtowns with signs in Chinese characters. Much of the recent Chinese influx is in ethnic areas, where rebel groups have also come to rely on Chinese-made arms to continue their struggle against the junta. (The Chinese, however, are an equal-opportunity weapons dealer, supplying the junta with much of its military hardware...
...After arriving in Paris on a whim as a college student in 1984, Wadham married a Frenchman and raised their kids as citoyens français. Now she examines all the reasons why "I adore and despise the country in equal measure." At their best, Wadham's anecdotes flesh out the strengths and failings of France: her wrangling with its expansive health-care and education systems; her encounters as a journalist that include friendships with spymasters; and her experiences as a wife, mother and woman in a society whose gender relations leave her missing the supportive "sisterhood" that binds women...
...decline in sales of the pinks and blues and, more recently, of the yellows has been apparent for several years," says J.J. Betts, brand director for PureVia, which is manufactured by Whole Earth Sweetener Co. Its parent company, Merisant, manufactures Equal. "We know stevia is the next generation of mass-marketed sweeteners in this country...
...court challenge set to be filed in Mississippi on Thursday alleges that the 400,000-person disparity disenfranchises people living in certain states. They call for the House to increase its size to anywhere from 932 to 1,761 members in order to create districts that are of roughly equal population size...