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...degrees,” Bell explained. “We were just about suffocating trying to sleep through the heat and the entirely French-speaking television shows. So we opened the window, which had no screen, against the advice of the hotel staff and laid in bare-minimum clothing trying to fall asleep...
...minimum delivery charge is waived, Archbold said, and campusfood.com picks up the tab for the free food...
...argument from the presidents’ perspective. Their actions at this year’s Ivy Council of Presidents’ meeting seem to show that they’re not too fond of recruiting football players. That’s why they chose to increase the minimum Academic Index requirement—2/3 based on SAT scores and 1/3 based on class rank—that players need in order to be considered for acceptance. They also reduced the number of football players that can be recruited per year. The Harvard College admissions website says, “There...
...Model Code of Conduct, the WRC advocates wage floors that drive up employers’ costs, encouraging companies to scale back employment overseas and produce domestically instead. Meanwhile, unskilled workers overseas need these jobs. In Vietnam, for example, employees in Nike factories earn almost three times the minimum wage for state-owned business. Many of these factories also include clinics, the only sources of medical care for employees and their families. In reality, so-called sweatshops are some of the most lucrative employment opportunities available in Vietnam and in similarly underdeveloped parts of the world. The WRC?...
...students whose school districts offer them full-day kindergarten are more likely to demonstrate higher achievement over the course of their educations. But as many as 214 of the state’s 372 school districts don’t yet offer kindergarten for more than the half-day minimum, splitting their students into groups that attend class before or after noon. While the investment required to guarantee full-day education for all 10 year-olds in under-performing districts—$1 billion spread over 10 years—is by no means negligible, the long-termbenefits are even...