Word: thingness
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...period given to staff members at the Faculty of Arts and Science to accept the package ended on April 6. Aguilera said she hoped their efforts would raise awareness of labor issues within the Harvard community. “It’s not like the only thing we’ve done is bother Drew Faust in Eliot dining hall,” Aguilera said. “It’s all part of a bigger campaign.” After less than five minutes, the SLAM members left Faust to her Diet Coke and salad. One Eliot...
...Education Secretary: Arne Duncan, who was a cool and driven reformer as CEO of the Chicago public-school system and is also a basketball player from the South Side who knows how to move the ball. Duncan's position on common standards is clear: "If we accomplish one thing in the coming years, it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America," he says. "I know that talking about standards can make people nervous, but the notion that we have 50 different goalposts is absolutely ridiculous." (Read "No Child Left Behind: Doomed to Fail...
...power grid is far from perfect. On any given day, 500,000 Americans experience an outage, says Arshad Mansoor of the Electric Power Research Institute, which is funded by the utility industry. Why is this a good thing? Because it means the grid deals with breakdowns all the time, and the industry knows how to fix them. The grid has built-in redundancies and manual overrides that allow for restoration of supply. Mansoor is careful to point out that these are "not defenses against cyberattacks, but for dealing with the consequence of such attacks...
...horrendous economy is teaching becomes a much more attractive profession. Second, you have the President, the First Lady, the Vice President, the Vice President's wife - who still teaches today, which is amazing - talking about serving your country, [saying] here is what you need to do. The final thing is, over the next several years we could lose, due to retirement, as many as a million teachers. Our ability to attract or retain good teachers over the next four, five, six years is going to shape public education in our country for the next 25 to 30 years...
...European campaign no one cares about," says Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, a political strategist who advised Le Pen in the 1980s. "Le Pen needs scandal to be elected. Dieudonné is an entertainer using politics to promote his career. Outrage generates headlines - and both men need those." Yet another thing the two have in common...