Word: perring
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...continental migration pushed it from place to place, leaving it - for the current epoch at least - at the bottom of the planet, where it became little more than a frozen desert. Its valleys are some of the driest places on the Earth, receiving less than 4 inches of precipitation per year. Species that thrived when Antarctica was green would have been entirely wiped out, unless they could adapt - and fast. (See pictures of life beneath Antarctica...
...Asking our professors to accept the same salaries as their counterparts at Stanford seems fair, especially considering that, just two years ago, the average salary at Harvard was $177,400. The faculty has about 450 full professors, and paying at Stanford levels would save about $10,000 per head, a total savings of about $4.5 million...
...Under the current 10-percent plan, families earning $180,000 pay just $18,000 per year. For the next few years, we can justifiably ask these upper-income families to kick in a bit more—say, $22,000 or 12 percent. Scaling back half of the newest initiative, which was projected to cost $22 million but will likely cost significantly more, would leave our financial aid program between where it was at the end of the Summers presidency (very good) and where it is now (extraordinarily generous...
...count, Facebook has more than 200 million active users, half of whom log on once per day. Users obsess over their profile photo and information in the “About Me” section, and they certainly don’t want the look of their profile changed without permission...
...libraries, $2.8 million for suicide prevention programs, and $16 million for community-based services for the elderly and disabled.In forming the budget, the House Committee on Ways and Means relied on a projected $19.53 billion in tax collections, a figure that Wolf said may need to be revised as per capita income drops.Wolf said that her constituents in Cambridge have expressed a preference for tax increases rather than “Draconian cuts in services.”According to Wolf, state lawmakers have been discussing a number of options to raise revenue and minimize the budget cuts, including raising...