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...Washington Congress Takes a Swipe at Credit-Card Issuers The U.S. House and Senate have approved a major reform of the credit-card industry, limiting unpopular practices like abruptly hiking interest rates, issuing confusing agreements and peddling cards to minors. The banking industry warned that the bill, which would take effect in early 2010, could lead to more rejected credit applications and the return of annual fees...
...people for weeks--is right behind the fear of not forcing people to flee when the big one hits, explains Franco Barberi, a top volcanologist and the head of the National Commission on Major Risks. "You need to distinguish risks," says Barberi, noting that a full evacuation would probably take three days...
...become outmoded, defunct, quaint. Now, “General Education” is being rolled out to replace it.On face, the Core and Gen Ed aren’t particularly different. At times, Gen Ed even looks like nothing more than a rehashed Core. Both programs demand that students take classes outside their specialized areas. Both advocate the development of a specific set of such courses for non-specialists to ensure that each student gains something the college can call a “liberal arts education.” And both subdivide such courses into eight subject areas, some...
...across disciplines and countries together.“I think the place is a kind of arcadia,” Israels said. “Once you’ve got in there, you’re part of a wonderful humanist Renaissance-studying community.”Since taking over as head of I Tatti in 2002, Connors, previously a professor of art history at Columbia and the Director of the American Academy in Rome, has introduced several new one-semester fellowships including one for museum curators or others already working professionally and one for graduate students to pursue...
...your friend about turning over a new leaf and buttsex. 13. Use, just once, a quotation from Thomas Jefferson to indignantly justify yourself to a professor or other authority figure. 14. Win a Purple Heart. 15. Use your Viking skills to score an entrance visa to Minnesota, and then take the dairy-creamery business by storm using wit and courage to win over the consumers of the Southwest. 16. Drink 100 cans of Bawls in one sitting and chill with Death for a little while in HeartAttack City before escaping gloriously on the wings of an angel who looks strangely...