Word: similares
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...Their life stories, as told in countless profiles, are oddly similar. Potts, 39, was raised in a scuzzy part of Bristol, England, we're told, by a bus-driver dad and supermarket-cashier mom. Boyle, 48, was one of nine children whose father worked in a car factory and mother in a typing pool. At school they were both bullied. When he turned up in front of the judges, Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed...
...Mather House library, students are still hired based on merit rather than financial considerations, according to library tutor Joseph S. Ronayne ’92, but the number of salaried library personnel may be pared down in the future. College libraries outside the Houses have had to take similar steps to cut costs. “We will have to reduce our budget by 15 percent and plan for an additional 16 percent reduction over the next two fiscal years,” Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard said. Much like Kirkland library, the Quad library has given work...
...Although Veggie Planet—a casual vegetarian restaurant a few blocks away on Palmer Street—offers a very different dining experience, its commitment to the environment is similar...
Still, housing children with incarcerated parents is becoming a more accepted practice across a region that shares many of Bolivia's social shortcomings. According to Lopez, Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala have systems similar to Bolivia's, which allows kids to live inside until the age of six (though even Lopez admits that kids sometimes stay years longer). Some women's prisons in Mexico hold toddlers; and in Argentina, there is a special facility for pregnant inmates and those with kids under the age of four...
...Lowdown While the artifacts themselves are well-presented and engrossing, it's hard to see how this promising collection of primary sources can avoid competing with the likes of Google and Wikipedia for readers who don't need to read Genji in the original Japanese. A similar Library of Congress archive was established back in the 90s, making a big splash at first but eventually falling to the wayside. Still, the World Digital Library has been mostly created with students in mind, who are most likely to find its mix of primary sources useful - so long as they actually know...