Word: wakeful
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...When I wake up I can tell that I’m on the third or fourth floor of a big house, not an entirely unfamiliar one, but one that I’ve been in two, maybe even three times before.I can tell that I’m the first, the only one, awake. It’s not so familiar that I don’t have to look for the bathroom, so I shuffle around in the thick shag carpeting until I find it, behind a crudely painted white door that hangs ajar amidst winter sunlight. It?...
Harvard has signed another custom loan agreement to increase borrowing options for graduate students, some of whom have had trouble securing funding in the wake of the credit crunch, University officials announced yesterday. The deal with the Harvard University Employees Credit Union will allow eligible Harvard graduate students to borrow a maximum of $250,000 for their education without a co-signer—a safety net required by many lenders. Discussions with HUECU have been ongoing for the past six weeks, and the recently completed contract will take effect on April 23 for the next three years. The arrangement?...
...Vietnam's own making, observes Thayer. The country has become increasingly dependent on foreign direct investment to buoy its economy. Last year, overseas investors sunk a record $11.5 billion into Vietnam. China last year had 73 investment projects worth $334 million in the country. But in the wake of the global recession, foreign direct investment plummeted 70% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same time period last year...
...independent confirmation at other, similar sites where old coral fossils have been deposited. (One obstacle is that only a few places on the earth - the Yucatan peninsula among them - have been seismically calm enough over the past several hundred thousand years to allow for such measurements.) But in the wake of the surprise breakaway of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which won't raise sea levels but will speed the melting of the remaining Antarctic ice, the Nature study is a grim warning of a potentially flooded future...
...subtle, it took a long time to wake up to the fact I'd become a different person. When I first started, there was no way I would call someone on the phone and pretend to be someone else. By the end of it, I was perfectly willing to pick up the phone and pretend to be someone's high school classmate in order to find a taxpayer...