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...rocky and hard to farm. Most families cultivate an acre or so of tobacco, the town's only cash crop, and a vegetable patch, with a little meager grazing land for a few cows. The families in the scattering of wooden houses and log cabins have a median income of about $6,000 a year. To eke out a living, many men have had to work outside the Gap, some, like Gale Webb, the father of six children, journeying 50 miles a day to Johnson City, across the state line in Tennessee. There are other concessions to the modern...
...grows ever more litigious, high-stakes law has ceased to be the preserve of large New York and Washington firms; practitioners now need to know on a regular basis what their colleagues in the rest of the country are up to. The potential market is vast: almost 500.000 lawyers (median annual income: $30.000) and 30.000 fresh law school graduates every year. To turn these prospects into profits, the three papers have evolved different editorial strategies...
Then there is the question of faculty quality. Hawes offers a ranking of average or median academic salaries, "one very basic indicator of the college's academic quality." On this novel scale, Kutztown's median of $21,600 lords it over Oberlin's $16,700, Smith's $17,500 and Yale's $20,000. Harvard is second in faculty "quality," since it pays a median salary of $27,200, while the California Institute of Technology is third, with $25,700. No. 1 is the University of Alaska, which pays top intellectual dollar, an average...
...Green. One could imagine the Lions, who nearly won this game last year, getting their Veer offense together and beating up on the Dartmouth defense. One could imagine Dartmouth falling apart at home for the first time all year. And one could imagine "Boats" having a C-minus median. Dartmouth 21, Columbia...
...Hawes said "the higher the faculty salary level, the more capable the college is academically." Harvard professors, with a mean salary of $27,200, are the second-highest paid while professors at the University of Alaska at Fairbank have the highest median salary...