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...have long contended that the city has not done enough to supplement its minority staff teaching,” he said. “I believe sincerely that the increasing of the number of minority staff members would have gone a long way to defeating...
Ameer said that while 1,316 students had been approved to stay on campus, the number of students actually on campus at any given time will hover around 1,000—the administration’s original stated target for the number of students...
Chinese officials say 22 people died, but Tibetans say many times that number were killed...
...widespread in 46 states and at a level equal to the peak of a typical winter flu season, according to federal officials. Unlike the seasonal variety, which tends to be most harmful to those over 65 years old, swine flu skews far younger, which explains the large number of parents with children still dressed in their pajamas who waited hours outside the Encino clinic before the sun rose to get the vaccine. (The CDC found that more than half of the hospitalizations from 2009 H1N1 flu reported by 27 states between Sept. 1 and Oct. 10 were people aged...
...over the past year doubled its number of helicopters based in Afghanistan to about 225, but troop numbers have risen even faster, making for a more acute chopper shortage. Helicopters are swift but delicate machines. The physics of flight make them inherently unstable, and therefore less reliable, than fixed-wing aircraft which generate their lift from stationary wings instead of egg-beater-like rotor blades. More critically, chopper pilots are commonly expected to fly in hot weather at high altitudes, where less-dense air offers them less control over their aircraft...