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...Russia in theory has a civil code that lays down workers' rights, but in practice you get hired the same way you get fired, at the snap of a finger. Précarité, the word that brings millions of young French people out into the streets, is the norm there. Forget about a pension big enough to retire on-you have 40 years to figure that out. Health care is more problematic, since getting sick puts you on the fast track to poverty. If you're unlucky, your employer runs out of money...
...peek over the shoulders and into the minds of the multitasking generation connected with e-mailing, IMing, Web-surfing youth who defended their do-it-all-at-once lifestyle as the new norm. But some readers cautioned that kids need to unplug once in a while to preserve their humanity...
...Homeschooling will never be the norm, but it's a pointer to the future of organized learning, argues researcher Barratt-Peacock. The days when the great storerooms of information were the university libraries are fading. The Internet has brought something approaching the totality of mankind's knowledge into the home, dismantling the barriers that limited people's choices about where and what they could study. In the new global village, Barratt-Peacock wonders, how long before a teenager in Christchurch, working from the computer in his bedroom, can attain a Harvard degree? "The idea of learning only in a large...
...will render the present advisory groups as marginally relevant as the informal groups of students and faculty with whom previous presidential search committees occasionally met. The search committee must make it a point to incorporate feedback from advisory groups on a regular basis; open consultation should be the norm, not the exception. It is all too easy for search committees to get caught up in the exclusivity and secrecy of their nine-person world; only constant communication with and open participation by advisory group members in the workings of the search committee will enable students and faculty to offer...
...Cohen’s goal the previous week in the team’s first Ivy League matchup against then-No.14 Penn came unassisted with 5:49 left in the second quarter to bring the Crimson to trim a deficit to one. But these exploits are simply the norm for Cohen. Before missing all of 2005 due to a preseason injury, he led the team in scoring with 11 goals and 15 assists for 26 points in his rookie season. “Offensively, Greg Cohen is back this year, that’s probably the biggest difference...