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Alas, universities today are not that perfect. At its most imperfect, the apprenticeship model has been perverted into a cheap labor source for the university. In a difficult economy, graduate students are forced to supplement meager stipends with more teaching-assistant work, little of which is managed in the apprentice-like manner it is supposed to be. Working long hours just to make ends meet, with little job security from one semester to the next, it is no surprise that graduate students across the country are turning to a historically successful method for improving working conditions...
...mileage. Last March Senators John Kerry and John McCain could find only 38 votes in the Senate for their bill to raise fuel-economy standards from 20.7 m.p.g. for light trucks to 36 m.p.g. by 2015. (In December, the Bush Administration moved to increase the standards by a meager 1.5 m.p.g. instead.) Meanwhile, despite improvements in technology, the fuel economy of the average American car is lower today than...
...historical norm has been roughly one dzud every half-decade, making for a tough season before more-manageable weather returns. But it's now happening for a fourth consecutive year. The dzud means less grass grows and animals can't fatten up before the winter snow buries the meager feed. Livestock starves, freezes or wanders off to perish in the blizzards. Officials warn that 2.5 million animals could die this winter alone...
...Office of National Drug Control Policy allocates less than 15 percent of its budget to treatment—and private ones were prohibitively expensive, six-month live-in programs. If these young people are already without the means to attend college, what incentive do they have to spend their meager savings on rehab—especially when most of them don’t think they have a drug problem? After all, if the government forced everyone who had ever smoked marijuana to pay for rehabilitation, over 70 million Americans would have to break out their checkbooks...
...meager Harvard training quickly proved insufficient to handle the rigors of FSU social life. By day seven of my research excursion to FSU, even the milk in my morning corn flakes started to reek of the taste of Natty Light. My inability to withstand seven days of the lifestyle that many FSU students have spent four (or more) college years perfecting proves that nature may be a limiting factor in one’s quest to become the perfect partier. Yet, even if the average Harvard man or woman is not meant to party like they mean it every night...