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Although we have traditionally supported that initiative--which would revamp the MBA track, diversify the current case-study focus and allow students to graduate in a shorter period of time--we are tired of writing headlines such as "Woman Tenured at Business School...
...food prices in the U.S. The northern passage has been used by the military and some Russian shippers for decades. According to Norwegian economist Trond Ramsland, who has analyzed the costs and benefits of the northern sea route, it can provide a link between East Asia and Europe, vastly shorter and cheaper than the present voyage through the Suez Canal. Ramsland argues that shippers could move goods at an average cost of $35 a ton, as much as $10 a ton cheaper and 11 days faster than shipping through the Suez...
This year's five-month negotiation period ismuch shorter than the 1992 negotiations, whichlasted into January. Negotiators say they workedhard to avoid another prolonged process...
...about two weeks. During the congressional Easter recess, ghostwriter Bill Tucker went to Gingrich's home in Marietta, Georgia, and extracted 70,000 words from the Speaker. "He's been saying the same thing since he was 15," says Tucker. "I just had to get him to make it shorter." The book repackages the sayings of Speaker Newt, lectures from his college course and riffs on the Contract with America...
...Lila Nachtigall, co-author of the popular handbook Estrogen: The Facts Can Change Your Life! (HarperCollins; $11). The natural waning of estrogen in the middle years often brings physical changes that can ruin a woman's pleasure in sex. The vagina basically reverts to its prepubescent shape: narrower, shorter, dryer, less elastic, with thin walls that tear easily and are prone to infection. The libido may also dry up, if only because sex becomes painful. While many women are spared these problems in their 50s, the odds are they will strike to some degree within a decade of menopause...