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...Department, home to the second-largest concentration after economics. Part of the impetus for implementing secondary fields was to attract more students to smaller departments as secondary concentrators, according to Rosenblum. Some professors, including Rosenblum, argued that it remains to be seen whether such a shift will actually occur.Deborah Foster, the director of undergraduate studies in folklore and mythology, said that if students flock to larger departments for their primary concentration, smaller ones might become, in essence, secondary fields.“Will students who have certain ideas about the future—or whose parents have certain ideas about...
...drive to draw more women hasn't generated a blizzard of downhillers, resort executives admit. Rather, as marketing director Myra Foster at Stratton Mountain Resort in Vermont points out, "it's more of an incremental push" complemented by initiatives like investing in bigger, faster chairlifts; refurbishing lodges and condos; and adding more luxurious amenities...
...couldn't imagine," said Wilson's former foster mother, Norma Garley, nearly wordless. "Something like that happening to somebody in my family." Garley and her family took Wilson in at age seven, after the girl was sexually abused by family members. When Wilson was 14 social workers moved her, but the Garleys kept in touch and Wilson telephoned them just before December 2001, when she vanished. Until the trial, the Garleys had no idea the girl they called "Running Bear," the name honoring Wilson's aboriginal heritage, had grown up to become a drug addict selling sex on Downtown Eastside...
...Serbs in Bosnia decided to seek independence, as some of their political leaders have suggested, would you support the move? Serbia recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state and fully respects the Dayton Peace Accords. A government led by me would certainly foster stability in the Balkans...
...Mentoring USA Mentoring USA provides structured, one-to-one mentoring to particularly "at risk" populations: young children who are at risk of educational failure, children in foster care, children who have been involved with the juvenile justice system, and children who have been homeless or have recently immigrated to this country. www.helpusa.org