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Friday’s announcement that The Boston Globe will be shut down in early May if unions don’t agree to cost-cutting measures hasn’t fazed many members of the Harvard community. Talk about the shutdown began after executives at The New York Times Co.—The Globe’s parent company—threatened to close the Boston newspaper if The Globe’s unions did not agree to a decrease in pay and the end of company contributions to pensions, which would total $20 million. The announcement comes...
...Tononi theorizes offsets the wakeful brain's activity. During waking hours, the brain keeps adding new information about its environment, forming new circuits and new connections in an ever thickening neural network. But even the fruit-fly brain has its limits and, like any computer, needs a fail-safe shutdown mode as it gets close to overload. That's where sleep comes in. (See pictures of how animals sleep...
...last forever. January marked a dark turning point for each of the cities. Unemployment claims started ticking upward in Jonesboro. In Cheyenne, unemployment hit 5.9%, up from 4.7% the January before, as layoffs in its warehousing and retailing industries started to filter through. Owing partly to an aluminum plant shutdown, unemployment in Charleston rose to 4.9% from 3.9% 12 months before. In Morgantown, the rate went to 3.9%, from 3.2%. Lower energy prices helped drive up the percentage of unemployed people in Casper to 4.2% from 3.4% year-over-year, and will likely have a similar effect on Bismarck...
...Pakistan's lively TV news channels went off the air across vast swath of the country. Aaj TV's broadcasts were limited by cable operators, as Geo News, the most popular news channel, disappeared altogether in major cities. The channel's management accused Zardari of directly ordering the shutdown - charges that the President's spokesmen strenuously deny. "At around 7 p.m., we began receiving reports that people were not able to receive Geo on their television sets," says Azhar Abbas, director of Geo News. "After inquiries, our sources told us that the order had come from President Zardari." The Zardari...
...important time for senior-thesis writing—which could be deeply difficult to accomplish at home. Furthermore, it is shortsighted to believe that only specific groups of students will be excessively inconvenienced by a forced eviction. In short, J-term was not meant to be a College-wide shutdown...