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...Crimson showed no signs of travel fatigue in the first game of the doubleheader, opening up a 6-0 lead in the first four innings...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Wins Two Against State Rival | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...radical idea, particularly for a school located in Lansing, Mich., where unemployment sits at 11.7%. Lansing Community College, the third largest community college in the state, has 30,000 students a year but is looking for more. The new money-back guarantee will apply to the four most in-demand technical jobs in the area: call-center specialists, pharmacy technicians, quality inspectors and computer machinists. The average pay for these jobs in 2008 ranged from $12.10 an hour (call-center specialists) to $15.72 (computer machinists). (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A College Guarantees Job Offers — or Else a Refund | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...Belgium, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands remain de facto nuclear powers Yes, that's right. The mighty Belgian air force is nuclear-armed. Although none of the four countries have their own nuclear weapons, there are an estimated 200 B-61 thermonuclear-gravity bombs scattered across their land. And under a NATO agreement that was struck during the Cold War, the bombs, which are owned by the U.S., can be transferred to the control of a host nation's air force in times of conflict. The NPR declares that these weapons "contribute to Alliance cohesion and provide reassurance to allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...principles. "I don't like to focus entirely on November. We're going to lose early battles, and we have lost some," he says. "We're encouraging change at the very local level - in cities, in towns." The goal, he adds, is to "create a farm team, so that four or six years from now, we have people with experience" who can mount credible campaigns themselves. (See "Will Too Many Tea Partyers Spoil the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Tea Party Movement Take the Next Step? | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...names would have to come from at least nine of the E.U.'s 27 member states. There are no restrictions, however, on how people can collect signatures, be it in the street or on social-networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Once the signatures are in, the commission has four months to either accept the initiative by drafting a proposed law to go before the E.U. Parliament, or reject it. Petitions can be killed off if the commission finds them outside its remit, or if they are "manifestly against the fundamental values of the E.U." Sefcovic also included safeguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Direct Democracy: Citizen Initiatives Come to Europe | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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