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Clearly the idea of more time for personal research without juggling four different classes in disparate subjects is a tempting idea, but adding an entire other month of class time onto a standard Harvard schedule is not the way to achieve it. The Curricular Review Committee should clearly look at ways to deepen the Harvard educational experience, but ones that allow for more thoughtful—not frenzied—study...
...It’s important that he’s not only a workout partner, because both guys will need the training. If both need training, it’s easier that way, and he sets the standard for the whole team: if a guy’s assistant coach is training harder than them, then they know that something’s wrong...
Sources: Chicago Tribune; AP; Centers for Disease Control; AP; Evening Standard...
...Percentage of schools that fail to meet this standard...
Ultimately, even the most ambitious overhaul will not be enough to keep some types of manufacturing in the U.S. When the semiconductor industry moved to a different type of fabrication standard, Agere Systems found itself with 6,000 employees in the Lehigh Valley and an obsolete plant. Over the past three years, the $2 billion company has shifted its manufacturing to Florida and Singapore and reduced its head count in the valley to 2,500. Although Agere has made a commitment to keep its design and testing operations in the area, recently bringing 600 of those jobs to Allentown...