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...dollars in financing for improvements and development, and health-care services for the elderly, infirm and poor will most likely deteriorate. State employees are facing payroll cuts, unpaid leaves and a hiring freeze. Money for firefighting in parched Southern California is drying up, as is financing for levees in flood-plagued northern environs of the state. And that's just for starters as California faces a budget deficit of more than $41 billion over the next 18 months. (See pictures of the aftermath of a California firestorm...
...doing it irresponsibly," added Tim Flood, who runs the school's student-affairs information systems. Flood said that student privacy is being protected and that the application is secure. "But this will challenge administrators in higher education to think about how we all deliver information...
...idea for the app actually came from Stanford's Flood and Black; an Apple campus rep put them in touch with Beykpour and Wasserman, who are the designated "Apple evangelists" on campus. Beykpour said that while the app launched the first day of October, it didn't really take off until two weeks later - when he and Wasserman made a spoof of the famous iPhone ad, which ran on the Jumbotron during the Oct. 11 Stanford homecoming football game. Wasserman said the duo sought approval from an Apple exec before airing the ad and got an e-mail back saying...
...flood of potentially frivolous lawsuits, many directed at small businesses of less than 1,000 square feet, can have a profound effect on the local economy. Fearing the costs of a lengthy legal battle, many small-business owners decide to settle with plaintiffs for thousands of dollars. Some can't absorb the losses and end up shuttering their businesses...
...2000s answered with a flood of Festival of Lights extravaganzas. Sandler's critically panned animated 2002 film, Eight Crazy Nights, was a cult hit, while a cool kids' film, Chanukah on Planet Matzah Ball, targeted the 6 and under set. The beautiful teenagers of The O.C. came up with an all-inclusive holiday, much like Seinfeld's Festivus, called Chrismukkah. Jewish hipsters gathered to watch rockers like Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell toast Hanukkah at the now-annual New York City event, A Jewcy Hanukkah. The punk-pop band the LeeVees formed specifically to "spread Hanukkah cheer" and released...