Word: perring
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...comb while wiggling her butt and buzzing. The angle she runs ... corresponds to the angle from the sun of the path that will lead directly to the orange tree. The duration of the waggle dance tells other bees how far to go - loosely, three quarters of a mile per second of waggling...
...Grand Plan for music. "A healthy ecosystem - that's all we want," my friend says. "Music as a utility." In other words, the labels want to see the same library of music available everywhere, in every possible way: for free and by subscription; streaming from sites and pay-per-download; locked and unlocked. Let the best business model win! The labels make money every which way. Indeed, both Sony Ericsson and its rival, Nokia, are launching services overseas this year (and later in the U.S., my friend says) that would give cell phone users access to the same vast music...
...listen to on the site or share with your buddies. Say, for instance, you're hankering for some Coldplay. Create a playlist, drag and drop all four albums, and you're good to go. The full-length songs stream at something less than CD quality (128 kilobits per sec.), but it's good enough on a computer...
...rather than appropriate bonus pay to individual teachers, schools that have made progress on their report cards over the last year will receive lump sums of money to distribute however they see fit. The bonuses—which total $14.2 million overall—amount to several thousand dollars per school, adjusted based on what percentile of its goal for progress the school has achieved. Most schools have elected to divide the bonus equally among all teachers, acknowledging that a student’s performance depends on a number of factors—from previous teachers to educators outside...
...each of the three FAS divisions, UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 announced Monday. The three advisory boards—for the arts and humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences—will meet with their corresponding divisional deans for lunch two to three times per semester starting this fall. They will discuss issues like advising, curriculum, senior theses, and tutorials. Stephen Kosslyn, a psychology professor and the dean of social science, said he approached the Undergraduate Council about creating advisory boards this summer because he wanted more student input. “There?...