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Well, you can get your medical degree and become a doctor at any point. The window for an NFL career is obviously much narrower. Is it the prestige of the Rhodes that makes this such a tough call...
...problems China now faces are a result of economic policies that are finally kicking in at an inopportune time. Concerned earlier this year about spiking inflation and a blistering yearly growth rate of 11% or more, China's economic czars set out to cool things down. They introduced tough labor laws designed to decelerate production of lower-value-added goods. It's in that sector that hundreds of thousands of workers are now losing jobs. The same holds true for the bubbling property market, where Chinese authorities conveyed to potential home buyers that they would be wise to hold...
...years of future expenses with a greatly diminished stockpile of assets. The recent washout has been enough to send some new retirees back to work at least part time and to persuade prospective retirees to put off their plans for a few years. So, yes, times are certifiably tough for this group. I don't mean to discount that. But the news has been so bad lately that every retiree may be fearing all is lost. Yet despite this pervasive sense of dread, here are three reasons things may not be as dire as you imagine...
Some states, like Florida and New Jersey, have passed new tough laws making cell-phone-smuggling a felony. They are also using cell-phone-sniffing dogs to hunt down the contraband and assigning guards to do metal-detecting wand searches for hidden phones. But Gelinas said South Carolina's prison system is "short-funded" and cannot afford to divert manpower to searches. "It makes much more sense to use the cell-phone jamming technology that's available," Gelinas says. The problem for state and local prison administrators is that jamming cell-phone signals is illegal and available only to federal...
...long CSU's enrollment cap lasts - and whether more universities adopt them - will depend on how quickly the economy recovers. In the meantime, public universities face tough choices. When state schools get hit with major budget shortfalls, "the only question is how the losses are distributed," says Hartle. "Nobody wins...