Word: supplementation
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Recruiting the smartest staff or students, though, is not just about pulling in cash. As part of its $400 million strategy to break into the world's top 50 universities by 2015, the University of Warwick - ranked 57th, according to the U.K. Times Higher Education Supplement list, as it approaches its 50th birthday - plans to permanently host branches of three or four overseas research universities on its site in the heart of England. Nigel Thrift, Warwick's vice-chancellor, won't say which universities it has in its sights; negotiations with North American and Asian institutions are ongoing...
This month, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization listed Zimbabwe as one of four countries (the others being Lesotho, Swaziland and Somalia) worst affected by the world food crisis. Relief agencies say close to half the resident population now supplement their diets with food aid and, with an economy that has collapsed, there is little hope of improvement. Running parallel to Zimbabwe's worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first...
...electric grid crackling toward brownouts and meltdowns and increases the demand for the construction of more electric power plants (and the pollution they spew - unless they use renewable sources like hydropower or, as John McCain correctly insists, nuclear power, which should be carefully reconsidered). "A lot of utilities supplement their main power sources with quick-acting oil- or gas-driven generators on the hottest days of the year," says Lee Schipper of the University of California, Berkeley. Schipper estimates the cost of peak usage is 20 cents per kW-h, as opposed to an average of 13 cents for "baseload...
...addition to its 1957 fall education supplement, The Crimson also published its 10th annual Commencement education supplement in the spring of 1958—revealing the prolonged interest in the issue...
...Philip M. Boffey ’58, now an editorial writer for The New York Times, wrote a critique of the lecture system at Harvard, which he called “by no means perfect,” for the front page of the supplement...