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...that FICA finances Social Security payments, and the connection between money in and money out helps keep Social Security secure. There's a simple answer: among the many problems we now face, the danger that a majority in Congress will gang up against Social Security benefits must surely rank...
...questionnaire, which was given earlier this month with results released Wednesday, allowed students to rank various aspects of their dining experiences on a spectrum of relative importance. As past surveys have found, students’ foremost concerns remained related to food and hygiene, with 96 percent of respondents citing the taste of the food as very important, followed by its freshness (86 percent), and the cleanliness of plates and utensils (81 percent). However, only 42 percent of students called the sustainability of their food very or somewhat important, indicative of what Dining Services’ Executive Director Ted A. Mayer...
...Obama team picked Garver to run the NASA transition, in part because of her deep pedigree and long history at the space agency, which saw her climb to the rank of associate administrator. But Garver started as a PAO - NASA-speak for a public affairs officer - and never got involved in the nuts and bolts of building rockets. She is best known by most people as the person who in 2002 competed with boy-band singer Lance Bass for the chance to fly to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket. Neither of them ever left the ground...
...their professors. According to student/performer Adam R. Donnell, it is “expected” of students to be in the show. In this year’s show, “I Got Curriculum,” the news that the Harvard Medical School has dropped in rank below “some school in Baltimore” (i.e. Johns Hopkins) sends the faculty into a tizzy of reformation. Lyrics of popular songs are transformed into medical jargon, like in “Anatomist’s Got Back”: “When a girl walks...
Standing on stage with Obama, Shinseki, who was the first Asian American to reach four-star rank, pledged to provide American military personnel "a smooth, error-free, no-fail, benefits-assured transition into our ranks as veterans." Achieving that goal, he added, "is our responsibility, not theirs." Shinseki knows about wounded veterans - he lost the front half of his right foot in Vietnam, where he earned two Purple Hearts...