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...years ago. "I was ready, essentially, to take senior year off," says Halstead, now finishing his freshman year at California State University, Fresno. "Then I learned that I was worse off in math than I thought." So although he didn't need the additional credits to graduate, Halstead took extra math and science classes that he thought would help better prepare him for college-level work. "When my friends were going out senior year, I was studying," he says. Next week Halstead, who is contemplating a history major, will take his math final. Since he has been scoring above...
...Hong Kong Disneyland Cast Members' Union made public a litany of gripes over poor pay, excessive work hours and, most of all, the sweltering conditions inside their costumes. Disney counters that the complaints are an "inaccurate representation" of the work environment at the park, that staffers have been granted extra rest days beyond those mandated by their contracts, and that their costumes are no different to those worn at its hot park in Florida...
...consider the many disincentives to work that have become entrenched in the tax and welfare systems. The withdrawal of certain (means-tested) benefits as income rises leads to high effective marginal tax rates. For some families in the middle-income tiers, it means they lose 70? for each extra dollar earned. So a second earner, usually a woman, is discouraged from seeking work. That may be O.K. for Howard's coffee mums, but for many women with education and skills, there is no effective choice at all. A tight labor market and an ageing society need their talents; if they...
...Crimson coach Scott Anderson said. “We won almost every face-off. It was unbelievable. He only lost a couple in the game.”Ironically, Flood was unable to control the face-off for a third straight time to open the final extra period and the Dartmouth clincher came straight thereafter.But it was thanks to Flood that Harvard did not lack chances to put the game away.Due to the discrepancy in time of possession, the Crimson took seven shots to the Big Green’s three in the first two overtimes as it looked that...
...average, melatonin users had a daytime sleep efficiency of at least 83%--meaning they slept 83% of the time they spent in bed--compared with 77% in the placebo group. That translates to an extra half an hour of shut-eye--relatively comparable to what one gets with a prescription sleep aid like Ambien or Lunesta...