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Budget woes are perhaps most acute in California. The state, the most populous in the U.S., spends about $48 billion a year on K-12 education, or nearly half its general fund, which receives revenue from a variety of sources, including income and sales taxes. This year, however, the double whammy of endless layoffs and an imploding real estate market has decimated the fund, with legislators projecting a $42 billion deficit by the middle of next year...
...would say the matches were a good validation that the program is running smoothly,” he said. “It’s always important to us that people are happy.” Some students, however, think that Datamatch contributes to the general societal trend of declining face-to-face interaction. “I think that for shy people, it’s okay [to use Datamatch]. But it might not be the right way morally—you’re not really showing people your real characteristics,” Nikola Ivica...
...impact on their work in a “Darwin and Me” afternoon symposium. The Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub is hosting a birthday party from 8-10 p.m., featuring free drinks, live student music, and a Darwin trivia contest. Lo invites the general public to experience the class’s exhibit in the context of today’s Darwin Day celebration: “It might be interesting to someone coming from the reading of ‘On the Origin of the Species’ to go to the Cabot Library...
...warring parties in the east can be distilled into three main groups: the Congolese army; a breakaway faction composed mainly of Tutsis, led by a former general, Joseph Nkunda; and an outlaw militia, the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), led by the same Interahamwe Hutu extremists who committed the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in neighboring Rwanda...
...probably being wildly over the top, but I do find this an incredibly encouraging place to be right now," says Nigel Haywood, Britain's consul general in Basra. The transformation from battleground to bustling municipality has been so rapid that it's natural to question whether a return to violence might not be as swift. Major General Andy Salmon, the commander of the multinational forces in the region, believes that widespread optimism - among Basrawis as well as their soon-to-depart overlords - is justified and itself a force for change. His mission, he says, has been "to protect that optimism...