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...musical community (Hufstedler is the drummer in Plan B for the Type A’s, and Rhodes is Linus’ guitarist), recruiting bands from their own campus required a more democratic approach. “We decided there wasn’t a fair way to choose except for setting up some kind of voting system,” Hufstedler says.After the Undergraduate Council volunteered its website as a forum for student voting, Hufstedler and Rhodes sent out emails over house lists and recruited eight bands for the contest. Over the course of 48 hours, approximately 600 students...
...Middle East, an attractive, exclusive market with all this novelty." Indeed, mall shopping is the No. 1 leisure activity here for both the wealthy local Emirati people and the white-collar expats who outnumber them. After all, there's not much else to do in this heat?except build more malls, as South Asian migrant workers do in round-the-clock shifts...
...S.p.A., very nervous. Even after the elicottero has floated up several hundred feet and the 100-acre estate below?tennis court, boccie court, soccer field, man-made lake, lemon and olive groves and church included?has receded into the distance and there's not much left to view except gray fluff, Andrea keeps a watchful eye out the window. It's not surprising, given the family dynamic. Andrea plays the goalie to Diego's striker, the introverted, behind-the-scenes power broker to Diego's extroverted, genial public persona. (A recent cover story in Capital, an Italian business magazine...
...unused goods sitting in the average U.S. household, which adds up to about half a trillion dollars nationwide. That's where the opportunity is. Over the last two years, more than 7,000 "drop shops" have opened around the country. These are storefronts that don't sell anything except services that help you sell your stuff. There are "personal reselling assistants" to help you get rid of the things you no longer need, and "closet cullers" like clos-ette.com that regularly sell things that are out of style or you're no longer wearing...
...intention. Faculty are not apathetic or lazy, he writes, only ignorant of research identifying active teaching methods as superior to the old-fashioned lecture. He writes that “faculties seem inclined to use research and experimentation to understand and improve every institution, process and human activity except their...