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...Defined by education, a central determinant of a worker's economic life, to include all whites with less than a four-year college degree. Source: Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution
...Medvedev's four-year term expires in 2012. If Putin's party does amend the Constitution, extending presidential tenure to five or seven years, as many expect, Putin might yet have his triumphant Kremlin comeback. The question is whether Medvedev's entourage might entice their man to move beyond the playground sandbox to which Putin has relegated the presidency. In the unlikely event Medvedev elects to challenge his mentor, it will quickly become clear which end of the power spectrum is dominant...
...order to maintain food quality. The committee discussed student perspective on sustainability as a long-term issue. But Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, one of the three student representatives at the meeting, said institutional memory can be difficult to establish given the typical four-year college career. “The easiest way to mitigate that is to ensure that there is transparency in terms of those decisions being made,” Sundquist said. Clear communication between HUDS and students about impending changes would most likely elicit positive student response, Bacon said. A February...
...encouraging: As of 2005, there were over eight million students attending four-year colleges, and that number is expected to increase by 16 percent by the year 2014. There are other numbers, however, that are depressing. These pertain to college loans, which are steadily increasing. Private lenders saw a 734 percent increase between 1993 and 2003 in the money they loaned to students, and it is these private loans compared to federal loans that have much higher interest rates and less flexible payments. About 15 percent of students at four-year colleges are now taking out these loans over federal...
...York Times Reporter, embarks on a journey that bridges many centuries, many countries, many people, and many other staple Chinese-American dishes in retelling the often dramatic, always intriguing history of the fortune cookie. Thoroughly researched and surprisingly artistic and imaginative, Lee’s four-year search weaves through the complex history of the Chinese food industry in the United States and discovers much of interest...