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...Only one of the students she met read the paper - most got news online. "We had to adopt a more diverse approach to getting our message out," Kelly says. She needed an expert - and hired an 18-year-old. "He had a MySpace site done for me within an hour. He knows how to upload videos and get his friends onto the site. We call him our techno-gecko...
...while 20-year-olds might relish the extra hour of afternoon daylight afforded to us by the switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) every summer (i.e. , the opposite switch to the one we made on Sunday), adopting DST all year round (and abandoning the fall/winter Standard Time entirely) would be a mistake...
This is fine for the summer, during which post-work walks or scrimmages actually take place. It’s stupid, however, for the winter, when people who have to rise early would need to spend an extra hour in the cold and dark pre-dawn. Privileging the late-risers for the entire year (by doing away with the recent switch back to Standard) would be wrong...
...France and America seem to be friends again; warm relations and mutual esteem have replaced nearly five years of diplomatic disdain; and presidents George Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy may start having regular sleep-overs if they become any better friends. Beyond that, however, the views of Sarkozy's 26 hour courtship of Washington - and the Franco-American love-fest it provoked - differ in small but significant ways in the two countries...
...arrangement in which "whenever he can make time, he will be with her," explains Alexander Freiherr von Fircks, former protocol adviser for the German Government. He says Sauer's reluctance to appear at public functions in Germany is not about gender or "ill will" - "Professor Sauer has a 14-hour workday; he just has a very tight schedule." Nor, however, adds Langguth, "does he want to carry her handbag...