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Despite Congress's holding emergency weekend sessions to push through a stimulus plan, educators in many states lament the fact that schools won't see a penny of the extra money until at least July. According to O'Connell, some of California's poorest districts are running out of cash for subsidized meal programs. The Hayward district is planning layoffs that would increase class size in primary grades from 20 students to 32. In Lake Elsinore, schools have turned off the lights in many rooms - and placed duct tape over the switches - to save money on electricity bills...
...answer is that mutations over time altered genes that encode proteins, and some of those changes have been favored by natural selection. But that does not mean that our genome - the sum total of our human DNA - is a finely tuned collection of protein-coding genes. In fact, a lot of mutations that all humans carry neither helped nor harmed our ancestors. They spread just by chance. And a lot of our genome is not made up of protein-coding genes. In fact, 98.8% of it is not. Some of that 98.8% consists of "pseudogenes" - genes that once encoded proteins...
...Hillary Clinton is headed to China. The inclusion of Beijing on her first trip overseas suggests that she and the new U.S. President intend to make the People's Republic of China a keystone in the arch of America's foreign relations. Paradoxically, Clinton will be aided by the fact that President Barack Obama has never been to Beijing, has previously said relatively little about China and is thus viewed there as something of a blank slate. Although that has caused anxiety among Chinese officials, it may also be a virtue...
Even the most artful U.S.-China policy will never satisfy those in China who continually dwell on past slights and grievances or alter the fact that we have very different and contradictory political systems. But a significant collaboration on climate change could go a long way to stabilizing the most important bilateral relationship in the world today. It would demonstrate the kind of leadership that has been missing from the U.S. of late and which the international community increasingly, and with good reason, expects from a rising China...
...wouldn’t take it seriously,” she said. Righthand said she did not respond to the match that contacted her. Former HCS President Joshua A. Kroll ’09, said he has heard of love stories that blossomed from Datamatch. In fact, Kroll himself was matched with his then-girlfriend when he took the survey. “I would say the matches were a good validation that the program is running smoothly,” he said. “It’s always important to us that people are happy...