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...ready," he said. It was January 2007, and as part of my reporting for an article on immigration I was about to meet some 15 Roma families who'd emigrated from the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Claudio's warning was partly to prepare me for the rough conditions - rusting doors and walls, leaking pipes, power cuts - that I would encounter over the next hour as the longtime city caseworker showed me around the fenced-in cluster of aluminum trailers...
Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies To Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work By Stephen Viscusi Collins Business; 171 pages...
...forced to respond to increasingly tough attacks from the Palin-energized GOP ticket, his campaign style is coming under growing scrutiny. Some feel the candidate has too often been more head than heart, more intellectual than passionate, less a leader than a lecturer. Will his style survive the rough-and-tumble of a modern media-saturated presidential campaign...
...based institute also currently has 330,000 square feet of laboratory space. Experts say that the establishment of the Broad Institute has caused a spike in genomic and psychiatric research, with Broad-affiliated researchers having published some 350 scientific papers over the past four years. “My rough estimate is that a scientific paper emerges about once every three days from collaborations that have come out of this institute,” Eric S. Lander, founding director of the institute and leader of the Human Genome Project, told The New York Times. The institute has also been very...
...departure follows a troubled tenure in which he was widely criticized for failing to unite the party's warring camps and for aggressively moving the party towards the left. Beck was seen as close to the party's working class base but unable to hold his own in the rough and tumble of Berlin grand coalition politics. The job may also have been "too much for him intellectually," speculates Langguth. The final blow may have been his decision earlier this year to entertain the prospect of forming a government in the state of Hesse with the minority backing...