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...pilot program that provided childcare stipends to graduate students with children will be discontinued after this spring, removing an income supplement on which some students have come to rely...
...Over spring break, rugby has planned a trip to Dublin, home to the headquarters of the International Rugby Board; women’s soccer is going to Italy, the land of Del Piero and Buffon; while water polo is making their yearly trip to California for fair-weather games against the sport’s best...
Though the athletes can’t wait for spring break, their minds are still focused on the games beyond. The soccer team’s trip to Italy gives them more time to practice in their off season. “Every spring in general—it’s an Ivy League rule—you’re given 10 practices but because we’re going on this trip we’re given five extra practices,” Wideroff explained. “We come out of Italy and start...
...becoming a winding river of sand, and farmers who depend upon the river for irrigation are watching the expanding sandbars as nervously as the boat captains. "If there is no water in the coming days," says 59-year-old farmer Vu Thi La, who just put in her spring rice seedlings, "it will...
...Those high-yield days may be over. As the drought intensifies, in some places seawater has crept nearly 40 miles (60 km) inland, says Dam Hoa Binh, deputy director of the Irrigation Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Hanoi. Most of the winter-spring crop has already been harvested, but saltwater is reaching where it has never gone before, putting the summer-fall crop in jeopardy, says Binh. "We are trying to strengthen our irrigation systems to prevent further salinization," he adds, but the extreme conditions are making it "one of the most difficult situations...