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...Meanwhile, dog shelters across the nation are reporting record intakes as housing foreclosures and job losses force people to abandon their pets. Last year, an estimated four million cats and dogs were killed in shelters for want of adoption. This year, with fewer adoptions, that figure will likely increase...
...process.Kayley E. Laren ’09, the chief investment officer for Smart Women Securities—a student group dedicated to investment education—said that many firms are not looking to hire much beyond the size of their summer class.“There are far fewer firms that are in the career pool because of bankruptcies and acquisitions,” she said. “Frankly, if you’re just looking at a numbers game, it’s frightening.”While she was applying through the Office of Career Services?...
...Students are the experts about their lives and how they can live in college. We must rely on them to educate us and be our liaisons to the student community. We believe the more students are invested in the well being of the college community, the more students benefit. Fewer students suffer privately; fewer students feel ashamed to ask for help; and more students recognize that conversation with counselors or mental health staff improves their self esteem, lifts their mood, and reduces suffering...
...alarmed at talk of lifting the moratorium. Virginia Beach opposes the mining plan outright, while Chesapeake has expressed grave concerns to state officials. Opponents are also skeptical of the job claims: in all the uranium mines out west, which produced 4.5 million pounds of uranium in 2007, there are fewer than 400 miners employed, according to statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration...
...rule: to declare a tie, the tallies had to be exactly even. We also know that, in 1969, Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand got the same number of votes for Best Actress - because they both were named winners. (There were also ties in three "minor" categories that had far fewer voters...