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...networking site was the fastest-rising search query, beating out Web rivals Facebook (No. 3) and Hulu (No. 4) for the top spot. But absent the cybertrifecta, the 2009 list is predictably grim. In a year that saw the "Summer of Death," Michael Jackson was the second fastest-rising term, and Natasha Richardson (No. 8) and Farrah Fawcett (No. 9) made the top 10. The only celebrity who's still among us that managed to crack the list? Lady Gaga, who catapulted to fame this year and landed at No. 10. (See the 25 sites we can't live without...
...just sat around and said, ‘what shall we do, what do we have available,’ then began moving all our furniture, our pieces, into the building,” Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside...
...expect that there will be any savings related to this program in the near-term and we cannot estimate at this time what savings may accrue in the out years," Neal wrote...
...impending exams. In the past, this arrangement would not be such a problem (the spring semester has always transitioned from classes directly into reading and exam period), but because reading period has been shortened from ten days to seven days in both the fall and spring semesters, the term-end transition has become significantly more stressful...
...fall semester that would have been manageable under the old calendar, and instead opt to distribute the workload more evenly throughout the semester. Too many professors this fall maintained their old syllabi structures without considering the potential impact of calendar reform on end-of-term student workloads...