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...Professor [Skip] Gates would hire me,” he jokes, “I would very much appreciate...
...rice. "There are so many expectations on us to come up with some solutions." Money is not the only problem: most food is imported, and last week Adeang learnt that the cargo ship due to arrive this week with supplies of flour, rice and sugar has decided to skip the island because of the meager volume, and won't be back until January. "There will be food shortages around Christmas," he says...
...student activities fee, and given that the Student Receivables Office has vowed to make the opt-out mechanism for online bills simpler and more straight-forward, the objections about coercing added support seem misplaced. If the issue is simply that too many students’ parents skip over the fine print, we think it better to err on the side of more support rather than less. The issue of climate control is simply too important; handicapping this initiative due to semantics would be a mistake...
...junior at the University of Virginia, took a biology course that met just twice a week and offered no labs, but he crammed so successfully for the AP exam that he earned a 5 (tops on AP's 5-point scale). That score allowed the high school valedictorian to skip introductory biology at the university, but he found himself woefully unprepared for an upper-level course. "Pretty much as soon as I got in, I realized that there was no way I'd survive," says Rosenbaum. He withdrew from the course and wrote an essay for the college paper urging...
...battleground state, and you can practically skip from lawn sign to lawn sign without your feet ever touching the ground. But that just means the lawn-sign wars are raging after dark--swastikas painted on Bush's face, bullets shot through Kerry's, signs stolen and trashed and set on fire and mauled with a hatchet. Pennsylvania Democrats have reportedly been spreading itching powder on their signs to protect them from vandalism. In Oregon just about every last Kerry sign disappeared from Klamath County overnight. So now "I'm advising people to do with them like they do with their...