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...These new stores-within-a-store aren't a total snore for the toddler set. "R" Markets will also sell decidedly nonessential, kid-friendly products like Pez dispensers, gumball machines and a host of other candy brands that will keep dentists employed for a millennium. Plus, most products have a kid-friendly feel - Elmo and Grover on the juice boxes, food packaged as "P'Sghettti Loops," toddler toothbrushes and such. Still, the intent of the "R" Market is clear. With nondiscretionary products like toys more vulnerable to consumer-spending swings, Toys "R" Us needs to give parents more reasons...
...Harvard Square, Free 5.Making a difference with your reading period free time: Help Project Bread make strides toward ending hunger in Massachusetts. The 2009 Walk for Hunger roams from the Boston Common into Newton, Watertown, and Cambridge and back again for a total of 20 miles, but participants may start at any checkpoint. Registration is at www.projectbread.org. Sunday, May 3, Check-in closes at 9 a.m., Boston Common, Free
SEAL training is a grueling ordeal: its core six-month course includes a "hell week" in which waterlogged recruits undergo five straight days of push-ups, running and advanced exercises--like learning to swim with their hands and feet tied--on a total of four hours of sleep. The Navy has more than 330,000 active sailors but only about 2,000 SEALs. The small fraction of recruits who pass training, as Phillips knows, are excellent shots...
...when the buyout is coupled with the hiring freeze, it suggests that the faculty intends to decrease the total number of professors it employs, which could seriously harm the diversity and breadth of course offerings and fields of study—a diversity that is central to Harvard’s educational strength. As a cost-cutting measure, the buyout has the potential to damage the depth, reputation, and integrity of the school by effectively eliminating positions and, possibly, entire fields...
...Jets in the sixth round of the draft, which would have been a violation of NFL rules. Pizzotti later clarified his statement, saying that there was no formal deal agreed on before the draft’s conclusion. At defensive end, Bryant finished the 2008 campaign with 20 total tackles, including 12 solos and eight assisted. Four and a half of those tackles accounted for losses totaling 14 yards. Bryant will be looking to bolster a Raider defense that ranked 31st in rush yards allowed, 27th in total yards allowed, and 24th in points allowed. Oakland finished third...