Word: recruit
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...must first register on your occipital lobes as a pattern of light and shadow. From there it is relayed to your memory center, where it is identified by comparison with every other face you've ever seen. You must then summon the speech centers in your frontal lobes, which recruit your breath and muscles and at last allow you to utter the words...
...easy. Ultimately, it will be up to individual schools to provide family-friendly benefits like off-season flex time. But will the athletic directors spend that last dollar on day care for a female coach or a shiny new locker for the football team? Will they actively recruit a woman coach as hard as they do a man? "The most important thing to my athletic director is the Directors' Cup," Yoculan says of the award given to the school with the best overall athletic performance in both men's and women's sports. "You win that by winning national titles...
...poppy export" company, only to learn later that she's a terrorist and her company is a front for a jihadi cell plotting to blow up an "Unidentified, Very Prestigious Landmark" in the West. A motley crew of extremists, who "rock the righteous to the jihad jive," recruit Sayid, and he must ultimately choose between betraying his new family or suicide...
...quick Rx: offshore outsourcing. In addition to St. Kitts, India, Britain, Belize and Jamaica are using the nursing-school slot shortage as a selling point to recruit American students. The pioneer of this movement is an 88-year-old entrepreneur named Robert Ross. He made his mark in the 1980s when he founded medical and veterinary schools in Dominica, despite having no background in either medicine or education. Ross University grew into a profitable institution with more than 2,000 students, and Ross sold it for $135 million in 2000 to a private-equity firm. He has reapplied his winning...
...deal with the ever changing face of terrorism? Good question! As with a stray weed, we need to destroy its roots; trimming a few leaves won't do. Searching cars and people at airports is a weak, pathetic response. We need decisive and sustained action against the organizations that recruit, brainwash and train terrorists. Unfortunately, we seem to be pouring all our efforts and resources into alleviating the symptoms rather than fighting the disease. Noru Tsalic, coventry, england...