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...teachers have glutted the local labor market, causing other schools to stop accepting job applications. "The market is already saturated, and many schools have had to slash prices as enrollment steadily declines," says Susumu Ikegami, a spokesperson for GEOS, the country's second largest English institute. "We worry about loss of consumer confidence in the industry as a whole...
...this elaborate infrastructure can do a great deal of good. The BioScience paper, which aggregated years' worth of other studies, reported that green roofs can cut heat loss from a building 50%, reduce air-conditioning costs 25% and reduce the so-called urban-heat-island effect--the tendency of cities to retain heat--by 3.6şF (2şC...
...resident and native of San Diego County, I have to say that the fires we've experienced this century are a result not of increased population but of Mother Nature at her worst [Nov. 5]. We're very grateful that the loss of life was far less this time than in previous fires. I praise the local authorities for using reverse-911 calls and making sure people were out of harm's way. Nevertheless, there was a lot of property damage, thanks to the Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions. You cannot win against Mother Nature--whether...
...erupting in a ball of flame summed up Californians' frustration and helplessness. The Dantesque orange glow bathing the entire scene imparted a netherworld aura to the image and gave me the uncomfortable feeling that there was no escape. I was arrested by a stark sense of the anguish and loss that those fires caused but even more by the primal insecurities that are aroused whenever we confront such unpredictability in nature. That was one of the best covers TIME has ever produced...
...captain Lindsay Hallion said. “We peaked in terms of being comfortable with each other and comfortable with the offense.” The comfort that the Crimson found proved to be impossible to stop. Harvard went 13-1 in Ivy League play, only sustaining one loss to Yale. Harvard’s solid play in the Ancient Eight earned it the No. 15 spot in the Dayton bracket of the NCAA tournament. In first-round play, the Crimson was matched up against Maryland, the defending champions. Harvard fought hard, but in the end it couldn?...