Word: fall
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...English Professor Louis Menand is listed on the planning Web site as a member of the College academics working group, but Menand is on academic leave for the Fall semester...
...make them more energy-efficient and build entirely new classrooms from the ground up. The new schools will have solar panels, wetland habitats (which can act as a buffer for future storms) and rainwater cisterns. At Gentilly Terrace Elementary School, which is getting an energy overhaul, power bills should fall some $22,000 a year. In a city that is struggling to get back on its feet, those energy savings make a difference - as does the fact that some research has shown that students actually learn better in greener schools. (It's not exactly clear why that's the case...
...piece of legislation that could possibly be passed under special parliamentary rules by a simple majority of 51 Democrats. Theoretically, that would allow President Obama and the Democrats on Capitol Hill to declare victory, and return to finish the job another day. But in practice, a smaller bill would fall far short of covering the estimated 45 million or so uninsured. While that would save the federal Treasury money in the short run, health-care experts warn it would make it impossible to contend with the larger forces that are driving up health-care costs and burdening the economy...
...weight of expectations seemed to have broken him. Or during the worst of his bouts with the bottle. Or when changing mores turned the family tradition of skirt-chasing from a mark of virility to the sign of a cad. While the Senator grew fat and seemed to fall apart, his brothers remained ageless and timeless, slim, breeze-kissed. If he was reality, then we wanted no part of it. (See Ted Kennedy's top 10 legislative battles...
...France's Basque country. But when Algerian jihadists unleashed terror attacks in France in 1995, Paris was awakened to the importance of cross-border cooperation in battling extremists. It kicked its then-nascent anti-ETA efforts with Spain into high gear - and hasn't let up since. (Read "The Fall of Spain's Most Wanted...