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...input moving into the future. For example, introductory courses like English 10a and 10b are still valuable—even if they should not be required. They provide necessary background knowledge for concentrators interested in a traditional British and American track, and also attract non-concentrators interested in English survey courses. Although the same sort of criticism as the department leveled at itself should be applied to the syllabi of individual courses like English 10a and 10b, these introductory courses should continue to be staple offerings of the department.Moving forward, it will be a challenge for humanities concentrations like English...
...with downstate appeal, like popular Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African-American Democrat who could win over liberal voters in New York City. (Brown garnered 6% overall in the Marist poll and 10% among upstate voters.) State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, besides polling even with Kennedy in the Marist survey, offers Paterson another benefit. The "accidental" governor - who replaced Eliot Spitzer after his resignation amid a highly publicized sex scandal - will have to run for his own office in 2010, and Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary. A Senate seat would presumably remove him from...
Consider that the average yield on a one-year CD is 2.39%, the same as it was in mid-August, according to a weekly survey by Bankrate.com, even though the prime rate - the rate at which banks lend to their most creditworthy customers - has fallen from 5% to 4%. That means a bank that used to borrow at about 2.5% and lend at 5% now borrows at 2.5% and lends at 4% - an entire percentage point has been stripped from the bank's ability to make money. More than half of all banks saw their net interest margin - a measure...
...problem of stimulant addiction in the U.S. has dropped out of the spotlight of late, but it has not disappeared. According to a 2007 government survey, 2.1 million Americans had used cocaine in the month prior to the survey and 1 million had taken other stimulants for nonmedical purposes, including more than half a million users of methamphetamine. There are currently no overwhelmingly effective addiction treatments. Abstinence-based rehab therapy for meth and cocaine work about as well as rehab for other drugs - meaning that about one-third of users improve following treatment, but most relapse repeatedly. And despite decades...
Today's influenza vaccine contains three strands of the virus, as determined by the World Health Organization (WHO). A global network of scientists survey the virus's mutations over the course of a year. "They see how the virus is changing, where it's changing, and the geographic spread of the new variance," says Bridges. The WHO holds two vaccine strategy meetings each year, one for the northern hemisphere (in February) and one for the Southern (in September). As soon as the organization announces which influenza subtypes should be targeted by the vaccine, medical labs work furiously to develop...