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...Zedong's Cultural Revolution soon after he graduated from Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 1964. Along with millions of others, he was sent to the countryside to "learn from the masses." After a year spent carrying bricks at a construction site in Guizhou province, Hu began a gradual rise through the ranks...
...alive until 2011,” Harris said.Harris’ committee is exploring two possible ways of implementing the new Gen Ed program. A “hard” transition would simply end the Core for all students, probably starting in September 2009. A more gradual or “soft” transition would allow students in eligible classes to choose whether to graduate under the old or new system. Under the hard transition, a student who had already taken four of the seven required Core courses would only have to take three Gen Ed courses...
...going to be 50, I would have loved to take advantage of that.” However, Jorgenson feels that the Fed still has room to cut further if it needs to. “I thought it was likely they’d take a more gradual approach...but five-and-a-quarter percent is higher than one would expect for our current financial growth. The target for neutrality is about four percent—that’s reasonable.” Stocks surged after the Fed announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 2.5 percent...
...Will troops start coming home? Petraeus is likely to recommend that troop levels remain constant at around 160,000 soldiers and Marines until April 2008, when a gradual redeployment will begin. The drawdown process will seem agonizingly slow, and that's because it will be - one 3,500-strong brigade and its supporting personnel a month. The timing is strategic and political. Pentagon personnel predict a massive drop in recruiting and retention in April if troops overseas aren't given long-promised breaks to go home. The political clock is ticking too. A partial springtime withdrawal would permit the White...
...seem to occur when the brain is down. The sleep/wake switch is in the brainstem, which helps control the body's most basic functions and stays active for longer than the higher brain in cardiac arrest. "It's likely that the transition to brain death is, in fact, gradual," says Mahowald, "and NDEs occur during this transition." As for people reporting accurately on events that went on around them while they were apparently unconscious, Nelson says "they may be seemingly out of it but still processing in a very aberrant...