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...might,” says Sullivan, the athletic communications director. “Some people say football should be played on grass, forbidding any artificial surface at all, but we really haven’t had the mass outrage.”A synthetic surface would cost less to maintain and would withstand unpredictable weather. In the 2004 football season, for example, the field never completely recovered from the season opener against Holy Cross, which was played at the tail end of a hurricane. Sullivan added that the increased popularity of synthetic surfaces at both the professional and college levels...
...prevent Iran from mastering the fuel cycle have failed, the Iranian leadership may have actually given itself some new room to compromise. The regime reportedly wants a compromise that accepts that Iran's nuclear reactor fuel will be enriched in Russia or elsewhere abroad, but allows it to maintain, under international scrutiny, the small research facility that completed this week's experiment. The U.S. and Europe have flatly rejected that proposal, because they had hoped to deny Iran the means of attaining even the know-how to enrich uranium for fear that this would be used in a covert bomb...
...hand, I rage against the French for their unwillingness to change, to accept new ideas. On the other, I rather admire them. In a time of globalization, wherever I go I see the same shops, the same food chains and the same clothing, and yet the French want to maintain their distinctiveness. They don't want to be like everyone else, and for that maybe we should be thankful. France is itself, quite simply and stubbornly, even though McDonald's and office lunches have made some inroads. In the end, the resistance will lose this battle. Maybe not this time...
...manufacturing companies in North Carolina - that now includes firms headquartered in Germany, Switzerland and Austria - approached high schools and community colleges in the Charlotte area to develop Apprenticeship 2000, a four-year program for students interested in technical careers. The participants, who are recruited as 11th-graders and must maintain a 2.5 grade-point average, get paid to attend community college and, upon completing the apprenticeship, are guaranteed a job offer but are not obligated to accept it. Starting salaries are generally between...
...excited that Harvard will be holding its first major concert since Bob Dylan played at the Gordon Track some 17 months ago. We maintain that concerts and other campus-wide social events, such as September’s successful Harvard State Fair, bring the whole undergraduate community together in a way that smaller events cannot...