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...First, and most importantly: extend meal hours to accommodate students' hectic schedules. In some houses, lunch is served only from 12-2, preventing students with consecutive midday classes from eating in-house until dinner. And how many of us have finished classes and meetings only to realize that it's past 7 and dinner is over? The best solution to this problem is to stagger hours: Those houses with shared kitchens can have similar hours, but that shouldn't keep Winthrop, for example, from closing one hour after Adams for lunch, or Dunster from being open for dinner until eight...
Stocks started the day lower as another sharp sell-off in Hong Kong triggered another wave of selling in financial markets around the globe, but the selling didn't pick up steam in the United States until yesterday afternoon. The Dow, for example, was down just 115 points at midday. midday...
They are also usually home at midday and available to take calls from phony telemarketers, far and away the biggest class of crooks preying on the old. Downs' first caller identified himself as Curt and spoke in the sympathetic tones that often win the trust of a senior. He commiserated with Downs over her troubles and then told her that her luck was changing: she had just won a prize worth tens of thousands of dollars. But to collect it, said Curt, she first had to buy something from a company called Professional Marketing Inc. in Las Vegas...
...bicycle is one solution, but what we need is a broader conversation about long-term answers to the traffic problem," says Joe Carroll of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Like many cities, San Francisco is a transportation nightmare regardless of whether Critical Mass is stalling traffic. On a recent midday trip along Market Street, it took half an hour to drive four blocks. But you can't blame city hall for that, says Steve Heminger of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning agency. Around the country, about 70% of all workers get to the job driving alone...
...April 9, 1969, the midday chimes were accompanied by an act that shook the foundations of the University itself before the eyes of the class...