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...birth certificates, legal addresses or deeds to their shacks and market stalls. Without legal documents, they live in constant fear of being evicted by local officials or landlords. Joseph Muturi, 33, who runs a small clothing business in Toi market, says, "We live with the thought that bulldozers can flatten our stalls anytime. I know that in a matter of hours, all this can disappear...
...court, Serena's fledgling rivalry with Sharapova could offer the most fireworks, if Sharapova would only show up. Williams needed about an hour to flatten her in each of their two matches this year. Still, Williams had Serena-like praise for her opponent. "She wins a lot of matches with her power. And she's really tall. Imagine what I could do at 6 ft. 2." That Serena swagger is back. And she insists she is healthy and dedicated to a summer of intense tennis. "You're looking at the best player in the world," she says. Bam right...
...score 12 points off turnovers and narrow the Crimson’s lead to 67-61. “We weren’t getting as many misses, and so we weren’t in transition as much. We couldn’t go at them and flatten them out in transition,” Sullivan said. “We lost our comfort zone against them.” With less than one minute to play, the Bears appeared poised to take the lead, as Brown’s three-point shooting finally came to life when McAndrew...
More importantly, the evaluations should ask for more extensive qualitative comments from students. The CUE Guide only publishes tabulations of numerical scores and of brief qualitative descriptions, which tends to flatten any interesting remarks into bland platitudes about a professor being “excellent” or “knowledgeable.” Publishing students’ thoughtful remarks online, as a list below the existing evaluation, would afford students a much better understanding of a course...
...reaching a saturation point," says Chris Chute, an analyst with IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. "Some of the weak vendors below 8% market share will have to reconsider their place." The big picture is one of a shrinking market: IDC predicts that global growth will soon vanish as sales flatten in 2009 at 111.1 million cameras, and then begin to sink in 2010. Things look even soggier through the revenue lens. Retail prices will plummet as they always have, especially as consumer-electronics powerhouses like Samsung, Panasonic and BenQ flex their distribution muscles to grab at market share from the other...