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...Learn to use your stick shift. Cars with manual transmission generally get better gas mileage than their automatic peers, but only if drivers know what they're doing. Driving fast in a low gear uses up huge amounts...
...That leaves many hospital administrations, already hemmed in by drastic budget cuts, struggling to find ways to prepare their staffs for the unthinkable: large-scale biological and chemical attacks. Speed and calm, both critical in a state of emergency, can be taught without special gear, but training in certain techniques and life-saving equipment, like $25,000 protective suits, doesn't come cheap. That means most of America's hospitals are ill-prepared to face a major disaster...
...while Yale’s graduate students join janitors, dining hall and hospital workers as part of their own bid to unionize, Harvard teaching fellows gear up to grade the first wave of midterms...
...gear up to take midterm exams, students across the nation have begun to dodge tests of their own. But they aren’t avoiding that routine American history exam or multiplication quiz. Instead, American students are increasingly opting out of taking standardized tests, now mandated by the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act. These students playing truant are decreasing the number of student standardized test-takers, and casting doubt on the effectiveness of the core mechanism of Bush’s education initiative...
When girls are watching sports with boys, live or on TV, it always helps when we look extra cute in all the gear. Don’t tell me that we don’t think a lot about sports—women put a lot of time and effort into clothing selection. Clearly, only scandalous, skin-baring outfits are appropriate...