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...snatched up right away. According to Director of the BSC Abigail Lipson, the Bureau receives roughly 1,300 requests each year for peer tutoring. When asked about a tutor shortage, Lipson wrote in an e-mail that requests for more advanced or smaller courses were generally harder to fill, while introductory physics, math, economics, and chemistry courses were in highest demand. “It is very rare that we cannot fulfill a request,” she wrote. Some tutors say that there are several factors that may prevent more students from working with the BSC. Otner and Jernigan...
...Kidding. But the resident FM stud is so kind, reliable, and wonderful to have around that we should fight over him. Certainly, next year’s guard wishes they had Evan. “I hope to work with a publisher, who will [...] generally fill in the very large shoes that Evan leaves behind (I hear he wears a 12),” wrote one incoming chair in his shoot paper...
Seasoned surfers are used to riding unexpected waves, but nothing could have prepared them for the shock they experienced last week when the world's largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...
...question for surfers is, who will fill in the blanks? There are alternative materials, such as epoxy and sandwich construction boards, but those are from molds, not custom-shaped, so surfers aren't stoked on them. There are also a few foam companies in Britain and Australia-not to mention cheap TDI production in China-but shipping is pricey and there's no way they can handle the immediate demand. Luckily, while the initial news was taken very much as doomsday for the surfing world, "the industry is banding together" to connect those who need blanks with those who have...
...PRESCRIPTIONProfessor Stilgoe is alarmed by what he perceives as diminishing environmental awareness among Harvard students. He states: “If you want to knock a Harvard student down to size, show them an outline map of the United States and ask him or her to fill in the state names and the five major rivers. They will not be able to do it.”The problem is not isolated to Harvard. Professor Stilgoe says that few colleges and high schools treat geography with any seriousness. This is particularly problematic because map reading, the correlation of the three...