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Move over mini-skirts. If you thought fashionistas were showing a lot of leg this fall, wait until next spring. The hottest look on the runways at New York City fashion shows last week was micro-shorts. Labels like Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger and Proenza Schouler showed shorts cropped high on the thigh. Some were inspired by the increasingly popular board shorts worn by surfers--and those who imagine themselves as surfers. Kors took his inspiration from the pleasure-seeking jet-setters on the island of Capri. But you don't have to be superrich to take on this reinvention...
...tenure should be made public, and the ad hoc committees should better clarify and make transparent the overall process so that candidates can rest assured that they are being treated fairly by the system. But the tenure process is highly secretive and likely to remain that way. Through micro-management—and possibly mismanagement—Summers could potentially prevent candidates he personally dislikes from getting through the committee before they are brought before the full HLS faculty for a vote. And without full transparency, Summers would not be held accountable...
...enrollment is due to the desire of some students to get some economics in a single term,” he wrote in an e-mail. “There may also be an increasing number of students who have “five” scores on the micro and macro AP courses which provides a basis for going on to higher level courses even if they want to concentrate in economics...
...carved by flowing water; liquid water is necessary for life as we know it. And while few scientists now support the 1996 claim that fossil microbes had been found in a Martian meteorite, most remain convinced that Mars might have harbored life in the distant past--and that some micro-organisms could still be hanging on beneath the frozen surface. The search for subsurface water and for those microscopic holdouts is the focus of several probes on the way to Mars and others to be launched over the next decade...
...impact is more immediate because there is a lot of activity at the base of the rocks," says Scott Fischer, climbing ranger at Joshua Tree National Park. He sees vegetation crushed by crash pads being dragged between sites, multiple trails created across the desert surface and an abundance of "micro trash"--climbing tape, bottle tops, cigarette butts...