Word: gao
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Shortly after the CSPIRG study’s release, national legislators called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of publishers, ensuring that they were not engaging in price fixing or other dubious acts to keep costs high for students. CSPIRG’s report, “Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks,” also led to hearings this summer before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Education Committee...
...general, the price of textbooks has skyrocketed. According to The National Association of College Bookstores, textbook prices have risen nearly 40 percent over the past five years. If the GAO concludes that the publishing industry is swindling students, they must be reprimanded and Congress must ensure that they are held accountable in the future. New textbook editions and software add-ons must be warranted in order to relieve the financial burden on students...
...according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), even a stripped-down Stryker weighs 19 tons, two more than the C-130 routinely carries. And Iraq has exposed the Stryker's shortcomings. To protect against rocket-propelled grenades, common in every war zone, the Strykers in Iraq wear a 2.5-ton cage of steel. This also makes them too large to fit aboard a C-130. The steel cage is only a temporary fix. But the final solution--form-fitting armor that will be ready next year--weighs even more, 4.5 tons, and takes 10 hours to bolt on. That...
...loss, Akanemaru finds the inner strength to continue his work while convalescing at a Buddhist monastery. Soon a powerful prefect "commissions" him, under the threat of death, to sculpt the legendary Phoenix. Given three years to accomplish this, Akanemaru begins a quest to find the bird. Meanwhile Gao falls in love with a Baya, a woman who appears from nowhere and becomes his captive. When Gao gets an infection of the nose (it balloons to resemble a hideous eggplant in a typical bit of Tezuka humor) he mistakenly believes Baya to be the cause. In a masterful scene of beauty...
...begins Gao's slow reformation. Upon learning of the wheel of karma, wherein the things we do in this life affect our reincarnated form in the next, Gao travels Japan as a wandering monk's acolyte. Along the way he discovers his own talent for sculpting. Meanwhile Akanemaru has a vision of the Phoenix, a bird who represents the eternal reborning of all life. His carving of the bird earns him a commission from the emperor to oversee the construction of a giant Buddha. Eventually, after many more twists, Gao and Akanemaru meet for the last time in a contest...