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...recently announced that all child-care workers must be qualified or in training by 2012, and starting next year, New Zealand's three- and four-year-olds will all be entitled to 20 free hours of early-childhood education a week. The next campaign, lobbyists say, will be to extend that to even younger children...
...With 600 employees in that office alone, it's only a partial solution, admits human resources manager David McKinnon, but keeping employees with young children happy makes good business sense: "The benefit we get back is probably tenfold." Despite the scheme's success, though, it's unlikely Orica will extend it to other offices or provide on-site care, says McKinnon: "There is a philosophical debate - is it the role of employers to provide child-care facilities? Is it core business...
...tough we are in critical situations,” Wang said. “We have so many 4-3 matches under our belt and [that’s] more assurance that we’ll go out and be solid.” Harvard will hope to extend its winning streak to three matches on March 12 when it faces No. 75 Tulsa at the Murr Center. While there are many teams who stand between the Crimson and the Golden Hurricanes in the national rankings, Harvard maintained that it won’t be taking anything for granted...
...puck from junior blueliner Lindsay Weaver, Sifers fired a shot from the right circle. Though Golden Knights netminder Kira Hurley made the initial save, the puck slowly trickled between her pads and across the line to give the Crimson the 1-0 lead. Harvard had several chances to extend its lead in the remainder of the period, picking up two man-advantage chances—including 56 seconds of 5-on-3 time—but the Crimson failed to capitalize on its opportunities. Fortunately for Harvard, Sifers’ goal, coupled with Boe’s shutout, was enough...
That, of course, is as it should be. Now that President Summers is leaving, we will need to create a constituency of students, faculty, administrators, and alumni to maintain and extend this program. A university community that thinks of itself as committed to equal opportunity should be ashamed to do less...