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...desperate to reach consumers in the social-media crowd, it's now possible to make a buck or two - or much more - on Twitter. A company called IZEA, which made its name connecting bloggers with companies willing to compensate them for plugs on their sites, has set up a similar service for the Twittersphere. At the appropriately named site Sponsored Tweets, Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want companies to pay them for the privilege of tweeting an ad on their behalf, and wait for the offers to come in. "I'm a stay-at-home...
NOAA is taking the lead in the U.S., where the agency issued in June an in-depth report of how climate change would impact America state by state. What's needed now is a similar service for the world. At the Geneva conference, the plan is to create a Global Framework for Climate Services, a kind of NOAA to the world that can update predictions on global warming as they happen - rather than waiting for years. This is especially necessary for developing nations, especially in the tropics, which are more vulnerable to the impact of global warming, like droughts...
...while the limits on J-Term housing have been largely billed as a necessity of budget restrictions, similar to other cuts undertaken recently by the university, we sense that the primary reason for limiting housing during January actually stems from a very different set of concerns—namely, fear in the administration that students will misbehave without highly structured activities to occupy their time and without a full residential staff to monitor them. In April, Dean of Students Evelynn M. Hammonds said that after the decision was made not to provide January programming, administrators did not want idle students...
...just a powerhouse.” Johnson passed away on Thursday in her home from cerebellar ataxia, according to her brother Bruce Pollack-Johnson. She was 61. Eight years ago, the acclaimed literary critic and translator had been diagnosed with the rare degenerative condition with effects similar to multiple sclerosis that made it difficult for her to speak and walk. But Johnson—who taught at Harvard for 25 years—continued to advise dissertations and produce scholarly works years after her diagnosis, according to Pollack-Johnson. “Her productivity was incredible...The blessing was that...
...years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germans are becoming more similar in their political preferences. Parties that used to be typical West German parties, such as the Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), now have significant support in the former East. And Die Linke, an amalgam of the former East German ruling Communist Party and disgruntled Social Democrats, is gaining ground among left-leaning voters in the former West. Voters who were once loyal to a single party have become swing voters, with the main parties taking the hit. The ruling Christian Democratic...