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...living wage for janitors. "We've seen workers who have sacrificed so much being asked to sacrifice more, when those implementing the decisions are not sacrificing themselves."The FAS Web site said that low-priority cleaning tasks such as high dusting, floor buffing, and vacuuming of offices would occur less frequently, but that high-priority cleaning tasks such as trash removal and cleaning of public restrooms would continue at their current frequency.According to Becker, the work hour reductions were not applicable to those janitors directly employed by Harvard, but affected all of the workers that had been subcontracted from outside...
...ruin no surprises by saying that at the end of the film, there's promise of a sequel. Blomkamp swears that the possibility didn't occur to him until the last week of filming. "Now that I've started thinking about it, I would love to make another movie," he says. "I'd go back. But only if it's successful - only if people want it back...
...sense when one considers that Switzerland is now surrounded by countries beginning to look more and more like Switzerland itself: friendly, peaceful, and law-abiding. The Swiss have no threatening neighbors and it is popular sentiment that the army would quickly be blown to smithereens if an invasion did occur...
...H1N1) and preventing it from doing its job of helping the virus replicate once inside a human cell. But certain amino-acid changes in the neuraminidase can render Tamiflu ineffective. This usually happens over time following extensive prescribing of the drug, but it can also occur spontaneously. In the winter of 2007-'08, a seasonal H1N1 variant circulating in Europe did just that, catching scientists by surprise. "We really didn't see that coming," says Daniels, who was one of the first scientists to identify the change. "Suddenly, an increasing number of H1N1 isolates were Tamiflu-resistant, and the resistant...
...seemingly so unimportant. Nothing is worth irreparable eye damage. But I forgot my shock as I automatically turned with the crowd toward the perfect orange in the sky—eclipse shades luckily donned—and watched the moon ruthlessly vanquish it during the longest total eclipse to occur in Asia for 500 years...