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...Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Middle School Bad For Kids? | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...Council, said that the international affairs fellowships, which pay fellows to pursue public policy-related interests, are, for recipients, typically “the jumping-off point...to go into higher levels of government.” Past fellows have included Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who made the switch from academia to government after she received a Council fellowship...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Power To Advise Obama For Year | 7/29/2005 | See Source »

...Zhihua, export manager for the Hangzhou Silk and Garment Import Export Corp. in Hangzhou, says her profit margins are so thin already that she can't afford to lower prices to offset the 2.1% difference in currency values. "We expect contracts that would have gone to us will switch to Bangladesh and Indonesia," Yu says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yuan Effect | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

Despite all the challenges, employees who have already made the switch say the benefits of "ROWE-ing," as they call it, are profound. Tobias says she has stopped avoiding her children. "I was getting up in the morning, rushing to get out of the door before my kids were awake," she says. If her children, ages 4 and 2, saw her, they would beg her to stay for breakfast. Now, because her quarterly goals are very clearly spelled out, she knows exactly what she has to finish in a given week--negotiate a rental-car contract or audit expense reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reworking Work | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

...issue is that the Wi-Fi and EVDO connections can't run simultaneously. This isn't a problem if you're in one of the places that supports Verizon's EVDO network. But when you're not, and have to switch to Wi-Fi mode, you lose phone service-it won't even ring! Suddenly, this Wi-Fi bonus sounds like a burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung SCH-i730 for Verizon Wireless | 7/6/2005 | See Source »

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