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...with most immigrant workers, the financial incentive looms large for Filipino teachers who opt for the U.S. According to Ligaya Avenida, AIC's founder, a Filipino teacher earns from $9,000 to $12,000 a year. In Baltimore the average Filipino recruit makes $45,000 a year. Many Filipino teachers seeking to practice their craft in the U.S. shell out as much as $10,000 to recruiting agencies like AIC to secure interviews with American administrators and receive help with visas and other immigration documents. With some agencies, however, the teachers don't always get what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Looking Abroad For A Few Good Teachers | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...have bikes that have been locked to the bike racks for longer than the career of a student in Quincy House.”LAZY BIKE OWNERS?But many doubt that more indoor space would lead to less theft, noting that bike owners may just opt for convenience anyway.“Many people don’t use the sheltered, lighted bike racks we have right next to the guard’s office, preferring to hitch their bikes to parking meters out on DeWolfe Street, causing trouble on the sidewalks and exposing their bikes to the elements, high...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bike Theft Persists for Harvard Students | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...devises a satisfactory way to translate the conventions of musical theatre into the cinematic idiom: “Rent” doesn’t embrace its show-tune cheesiness in the manner of Rob Marshall’s “Chicago,” nor does it opt for cinematic seriousness like Bille August’s “Les Miserables.” Either would have been preferable to Columbus’ middle-of-the-road approach: “Rent”’s schizophrenic shifts between dramatic scenes and musical set pieces...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rent | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...campus-wide social events, and it has an insatiable appetite for repeating (and expanding upon) its own mistakes. We must stop this ravenous beast while we still have the chance. We must cut off its life blood. We must reduce its budget.Now I am not suggesting that everyone immediately opt-out of the termbill fee and completely cripple the Council’s ability to function. (A little bird told me, however, that one can still opt-out and immediately have one’s termbill credited for $75 at https://sfsportal.harvard.edu/portal/ugcfwaiver even though the website says the cutoff...

Author: By John Hastrup, | Title: Cut the Termbill—by Yourself | 11/15/2005 | See Source »

...Ireland. "This is not a one-size-fits-all approach," he says. The first-trimester screening carries a high risk of false positives for older women, so a woman who has struggled for years to get pregnant and wishes to avoid the risks of a follow-up amnio might opt for the fully integrated test, even though that means waiting until the second trimester. For many others, speed is the priority. Dr. Malone hopes the study "will finally do away with the entirely arbitrary idea that women over 35 should be alarmed and have amniocentesis and women under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Down Syndrome Dilemma | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

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