Word: tomasetti
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...statistics and parents suggest that's still not enough. A recent Australian Bureau of Statistics report says around 250,000 women who want to return to work or work longer hours can't because of a lack of child care. Having seen friends in that position, Melbourne mother Sarah Tomasetti thinks herself lucky to have just been offered a place for her son one day a week - after a 19-month wait. Though her temporary teaching jobs occupy only 26 weeks each year, she'll have to pay the center throughout the year or give up her son's place...
...Friends tell Sarah Tomasetti that only six or seven years ago they could shop around for quality child care. Now, she says, "if you're offered a place anywhere, you consider it." The risk of too little choice is that substandard care "becomes something you can't afford to see," says Margaret Sims, associate professor in community studies at Edith Cowan University. So how can parents spot it? Look at the developmental programs, activities and menus on offer, she says. And if carers are reluctant to let you watch them interacting with children, leave...
...structural engineer at the beginning," says Ysrael Seinuk, whose firm, Cantor-Seinuk, is the structural engineer for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Towers have got not just taller but stranger--asymmetrical and askew. No need to worry though, says Charles Thornton of Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, which worked on a new tower in Taipei, among many others. "Two new developments allow us to produce any shape anyone wants to do," he says. "One is the ability to 'build' a building on the computer with programs that even factor in the dimension of time...
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