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...Unified Gas Supply System of Russia (UGSS) that supplied the old Soviet empire. "One of the mistakes that our so-called reformers made was having the UGSS sadistically dismembered," he explains to TIME, sitting back, pin-striped and relaxed, in his techno-style office that dominates the ninth floor of the posh new Gazpromexport headquarters in downtown Moscow. His disdain of the architects of Russia's early market reform is de rigueur for top executives under President Vladimir Putin. Medvedev isn't finished. He says Gazprom wants to reintegrate into this system all national gas transport and distribution networks...
...students enter their ninth day of hunger striking for higher wages for Harvard’s security guards, high-level University officials have agreed to a meeting with three of the students this morning to discuss the issue...
...York discovered that its most vulnerable ninth-graders--the weak readers--were much more likely to stay on track toward graduation at the city's newer and smaller high schools than at its large conventional ones. "A big aha," says Hamilton, "is that a single strategy was not going to work. You need a portfolio of strategies." In the wake of the report, the city has examined what the best transfer schools, YABCs and GED programs were doing right and is trying to replicate them citywide...
...York will also have to stem the tide of students who fall behind in the first place. Ninth grade is a major pitfall. Parthenon found that 78% of kids who become overage and undercredited had to repeat freshman year. One key is improving reading skills in middle school--a challenge nationally. Last year 37% of the city's eighth-graders were proficient in reading, up from 30% in 2002 but still a long way from ideal. Another key, Klein believes, is continuing to replace big, impersonal high schools with smaller schools that offer a sense of community and a variety...
Junior Amanda Watkins and freshman Dana Roberts should also see action on the mound this weekend. Each rank in the top ten of the league in ERA. Watkins’ 2.37 mark ranks seventh, while Roberts’ 2.68 mark is ninth. She is also tied for the league lead with four saves...