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...Social Development Minister Virginia Borra, in charge of recording supplies as they arrive, said that the government will not turn the crisis into a political shouting match with opponents. "There will be people who complain no matter what we do," she said. Right now Peruvians approve. In a survey published over the weekend, 76% approved of Garcia's reaction to the disaster...
...shortly), the new rankings don't look much different from previous lists, despite the recent organized rebellion against the magazine's long-criticized method of pitting school against school. So far this year, 62 college presidents have signed a letter pledging to stop filling out the U.S. News reputational survey, which accounts for 25% of a school's overall score...
...Universities that will enable prospective students to make apples-to-apples comparisons of participating schools. And in June, some two months before Sarah Lawrence discovered it had been relegated to the rankings' equivalent of Siberia, the school decided it would not only stop participating in the U.S. News reputational survey, but would no longer provide any data whatsoever to the magazine. "Sarah Lawrence is taking a stand," says the school's communications director Todd Wilson. "A lot of people who are close to the college might ultimately view this as a point of pride." Then again, a lot of people...
...could hurt National Guard retention as well as active-duty recruitment. Tom Bush, the Defense Department's principal director of manpower and personnel (and no relation to the President), says that for active-duty service members, tuition assistance is a powerful recruiting tool. In fact, according to a 2004 survey commissioned by the Army, education benefits were the most common incentive cited by young adults considering an enlistment...
...Nicknamed the "goddess of the Yangtze," and long considered auspicious by fishermen, the pale-colored, human-sized dolphins have always been rare: a 1997 survey recorded only 14 left in the river. (A captive dolphin died of old age in a Chinese zoo in 2002). But Pfluger says human pressure pushed the baiji past the tipping point. "The main reason is overfishing. The Chinese still use unsustainable fishing methods like dynamite. There's still a lot of illegal fishing, so the dolphins were competing with humans for food...