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...will layoff about 250 employees, shut down the campus during winter break and maintain a salary freeze in a drastic effort to reduce annual operating costs by $34 million as the school’s endowment continues to drop for a third straight year...
...Thanksgiving approaches, many seniors are searching for the ideal location for the next Spring Break: somewhere far from thesis research and cold, bleak winter weather...
Citysports manager Joanie Kelley said that although winter clothes sales at the store have not taken off yet due to the high temperatures, the increased foot traffic has offset any potential loss. “Supply and demand have matched up so far,” she said...
...teach at a Karachi school and visited Afghanistan for a week in October. I went by car, without a guard, and traveled in an area around Kabul. Everywhere I saw people going about their lives, harvesting wheat and putting up hay for the animals to eat in winter. I visited some schools, including one with 5,700 students who come to classes in shifts starting at 7 in the morning. At no time did I feel threatened. I would say the majority of Afghans simply want to get on with living. RUTH DEIBLER Karachi...
...idea of using your cell phone as a credit card at a cash register to pay for a burger and fries or a new winter coat is still largely a futuristic notion in the U.S. and Europe. Yet parts of Asia are making serious strides toward mobile finance as a fully functional reality. In Japan, telecom NTT DoCoMo and financial firms Nippon Shinpan and Visa International are rolling out the second test phase of an infrared-enabled payment system, which will include 1,000 merchants and 10,000 consumers. Peddlers of the technology have gained an even greater foothold...