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...During the first 500 we had a few seats to come back on Navy to catch up with them,” he said. “We had a solid stroke rating, about 35 strokes per minute during the body of the race. We just wanted to power through the middle part and work our way ahead before the final stretch...
...longevity is certainly not written in the stars. Even legendary publications such as The Partisan Review have recently become defunct as a result of the death of founders and a lack of funds.“The current print run of n+1 is around 7,000 copies per issue,” says Alexandra Heifetz, the business manager of the magazine. This number, though seemingly small, is in fact rather impressive. At its peak, the print run of The Partisan Review only reached around 15,000. Nonetheless, the editors recognize the need for reassessment...
...attempting to negotiate a different rate for educational stations (full disclosure: WHRB is one of the negotiating parties). Difficulties range from the trifling—SoundExchange does not send invoices for payment—to the substantial.The company is arguing for four two-week logging periods (one per quarter), one of which will necessarily be during the summer, when college radio stations typically broadcast automated air.Unlike BMI, SoundExchange provides no clear guidelines for how the data should be compiled nor do they remind stations to submit the information, setting up a trap for smaller stations.They also accept data only...
...facts: In the social science division of Harvard College, there are roughly 11 concentrators for every faculty member, and the ratios are worse in Harvard’s two largest concentrations, government and economics. In the natural sciences, applied sciences, and engineering, there are approximately five students per professor. In the humanities, there are about four...
...trainspotter's paradise. From the 12 separate metro lines that twist beneath Tokyo like a bowl of noodles to the suburban commuter trains packed to bursting every morning and evening, the country runs on rails. In 2005, Japanese traveled 243 billion miles by railroad - nearly 1,900 miles per person. And 49 billion of those miles were covered by the shinkansen, the super-fast bullet trains that make intercity travel as simple as a subway hop. If all you've ever known is the slow torture of Amtrak, you won't believe trains that reach 170 mph, depart for major...