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...reading period is almost exactly proportioned to the quality of the student.”Time Abused?Munro was a little blunter than the average professor today, but his sentiments regarding the potential for reading period abuse have stuck around. Over the years, in fact, reading period has steadily shrunk from nearly a month to where it is today, nestled at 11 days in the fall term and a whopping 12 days for the spring term. Lawrence Buell, Cabot Professor of American Literature and former dean of undergraduate education, is one faculty member who doesn’t worry about...
Seattle mayor Greg Nickels has news for President George W. Bush: global warming is also "local" warming. So for Nickels and his constituents, climate change is about the Cascade Mountains, where the city gets its water and hydropower and where the snowpack has shrunk by half over the past 50 years. It's about the effect of Puget Sound's warmer waters on wild-salmon runs. It's about hotter summers cooking up more smog. It's about a rise in sea level that could flood Seattle's port. "The stakes are high--globally and locally," he says. "We need...
...relations with Islam. In fact, the move was as much an administrative realigment: two weeks after Fitzgerald's appointment, his former office was merged with the Pontifical Council for Culture - and two more Vatican offices (the Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace, and for Migrants and Refugees) were shrunk into one. Message: Benedict?s much anticipated streamlining of the Roman Curia has begun...
Italy is the sick man of Europe these days--its economy has shrunk 4% since 1999, after adjusting for inflation--and the predicament of the chair triangle helps explain why. Along with Germany and France, the nation has been struggling with weak consumer spending, waning productivity and rising government deficits. But unlike its neighbors, Italy lacks large robust corporations that can export their way out of trouble. Many of the thousands of small and medium-size companies that once gave the Italian economy its flexibility and dynamism are poorly equipped to deal with the challenges of a fast-changing world...
...federal government's botched handling of Katrina and claimed that briefing Chertoff during the crisis would have been a "waste of time." In other comments since he was dismissed from FEMA, Brown has adamantly disagreed with how FEMA was folded into the Homeland Security Department, which he felt shrunk FEMA's authority and compromised its ability to react to events like hurricanes...