Word: jem
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...negatively impacted their spousal relationships. An “extreme job,” by definition, involved working at least 60 hours per week. “Extreme” workers also tended to follow unusual and unpredictable schedules, travel frequently, and hold responsibility for profit and loss. Jem E. Veljic ’06 said she has been able to maintain a serious relationship while working in an investment bank office in Boston. She said her boyfriend also works in finance. “I think if you and your partner act kind of like a team rather than...
...campus, located about a 40-minute train ride northeast of Tokyo, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa and his team were recently putting the finishing touches on Japan's next small step. In a gigantic clean room the size of a warehouse, Hasegawa oversees the assembly of the $3.25 billion Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), Japan's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS). After the module tubes are finished, launched aboard a space-shuttle flight sometime in 2007, assembled and attached to the ISS, three Japanese astronauts will live in the JEM for three to six months at a time. "This is an essential...
...those who don’t qualify for the Student Events Fund, engaging culturally can be difficult. “I want to support my friends by seeing their singing, acting, etc., but it all costs money. Those $5-$25 tickets add up,” says Gupta. But Jem E. Veljic ’06, of the Radcliffe Pitches, argues that the sense of consumption actually enhances the experience of a concert. “If you pay to get in it’s kind of a legitimate concert. It’s one of the features...
...those who don’t qualify for the Student Events Fund, engaging culturally can be difficult. “I want to support my friends by seeing their singing, acting, etc., but it all costs money. Those $5-$25 tickets add up,” says Gupta. But Jem E. Veljic ’06, of the Radcliffe Pitches, argues that the sense of consumption actually enhances the experience of a concert. “If you pay to get in it’s kind of a legitimate concert. It’s one of the features...
...think they were impressed that I was getting paid to sing, but people my age didn’t know about Jem. They’re much more excited about it now than they were at the time. My brother and his friends were really into the fact that I worked on the show. They used to make me sing whenever I came home. It was great...