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...high-paying finance and consulting sectors, which just three years ago hired 47 percent of seniors intending to work right after graduation, came in comparatively low at 30.52 percent, though that figure represents a rise from 20 percent last year, when companies slashed hiring levels as Wall Street grappled with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression...
...assume that private delivery services such as FedEx and UPS would establish offices everywhere that the USPS currently serves. Even if they did, such offices would be mere retail outlets; they would not contribute to national unity the way USPS offices currently do. Finally, privatization and the likely concomitant rise in prices and fall in locations would hurt those who are already disadvantaged the most, such as people without phone or Internet services, or those who are unable to use such technologies...
...think [Dalrymple] is effective against our hitters,” Black said. “She is a rise-ball pitcher, so she has a lot of up pitches, and we were getting a little under the ball, popping some balls up. But we also figured her out. We were hitting the ball hard [Saturday]. Whitney Shaw hit a bomb home run. We figured her out, but she was very effective...
...four drugs, all nearly half a century old, for at least six months. The logistical and financial hurdles associated with paying for and completing treatment, however, virtually guarantee noncompliance and relapse. Second, in a cascade effect, noncompliance selects for drug-resistant strains of the mutated pathogen, precipitating the rise of multi-drug resistant and extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. Treatment for drug-resistant TB with second-line drugs is astronomically more expensive, more time-intensive, and associated with more toxic side effects. Third, the rise of TB and human immunodeficiency virus coinfection means TB is leading cause of death among...
...this interest in going green has been accompanied by a growing demand for energy—a demand that is expected, according to the Energy Information Administration, to rise nearly 26 percent by 2030. In my class on thermodynamics last semester, fuel-cell technology received a lot of attention, and I’ve been flagged down countless times by insistent, blue-shirted activists who solicit signatures for the proposed wind farm on Nantucket Sound. However, there is another technology being embraced by the proponents of green technology and by evolving government policy, that is making headlines. It generates...