Word: gainful
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...always been interested in teaching but didn’t know whether she wanted to pursue a career in mathematics or education. She added that joining Teach for America would be “an experiment” but that she would take the experience seriously to gain training in education. Philip G. Parham ’09, one of the organizers of the event, said that the event was meant to counteract the fact that at Harvard there is “a lot of focus on law, medicine, i-banking, and consulting.” Last year...
...Missouri's demographics and its election rules make it particularly tough to handicap a close race here. Because the state mirrors America, every conceivable issue might gain traction - Missouri has nervous factory workers and ethanol-happy farmers; it has failing school districts and wealthy boomers irritated by the estate tax; it has huge corporations alongside angry populists. No one agenda has captured the race...
...latest techno single, boys’ rules go. This places an uneven level of control in the hands of the final clubs’ male members—socially anxious stiletto-clad girls forge friendships with an arbitrary group of polo-clad boys so that they might gain entrance across the threshold of the Spee Club one or another Friday night. Because women’s clubs often hold their parties and punch events in male clubs, even members of female final clubs find themselves relying on their male counterparts for a good time. Essentially, the nature of final clubs...
...India's illegal organ trade is driven in part by the incredible imbalance between supply and demand for legal organs. The Indian government banned the sale of kidneys for commercial gain in 1994; lawbreakers can be jailed for up to five years. But legal organ donations remain rare in India. The Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN), a Chennai-based non-government group that promotes legal organ donation, puts donation rates in India at well under 1 per million, compared to rates of more than 20 per million in places such as Spain, the U.S. and France. The group...
...caucuses, the number of young voters was up half again as much: 135%. The kids preferred Obama over the next-closest competitor by more than 4 to 1. The youngest slice - the under-25 set, typically among the most elusive voters in all of politics - gave Obama a net gain of some 17,000 votes. He won by just under...