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...initiative at their meeting yesterday, and are still researching whether the College would contribute to funding the program, which would cost $40,000 a year. Maia Usui ’11, a UC representative who has championed the program, said she hopes a trial will begin before winter break. The newspaper program would likely cost $4 to $6 per student per year. Funding could come from the UC’s budget of student activities termbill fees, the College, or both. “The ideal situation would be that we would be able to pay for this from other...
...become food critics and restaurant reviewers. They are the food snobs who know what they like and are unrelenting in their opinions. The egalitarians, on the other hand, are the ones who wax nostalgic about steaming bowls of tripe prepared by their mother in the winter, or the chicken feet they had at dim sum with their grandparents. For them, whether or not they like a food depends much more on the company and memories surrounding the dish than on the taste of the item itself. (Tripe, nota bene, is cow stomach.) These are the people who are hopelessly easy...
...crawl into a cave, close your eyes for the winter and emerge to a stabler market. But you can at least guarantee yourself a few good hours of shut-eye at night or on your next flight. To help you achieve total blackout and quality REMs, we've road-tested a variety of eye masks on the market...
...harsh new reality for most Web 2.0 and other tech start-ups who've been chasing audiences without regard to the immediate bottom line. Gone is the old mantra - get to a million users, then worry about how you'll monetize. We're back to a nuclear winter, a season that tends to arrive in the bread basket of innovation every four years or so. But this time, the pundits say, expect a long, cold winter that could last five years...
...even worse. His fears echo a nearly completed U.S. National Intelligence Assessment that has described a "downward spiral" in Afghanistan unless major improvements are immediately implemented. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration has launched a major review of its Afghanistan policy just as new ground-based intelligence indicates that this winter may not yield the expected lull in fighting that would have allowed a deployment of extra troops to wait until the spring. U.S. and Afghan forces patrolling the eastern border near Pakistan have uncovered caches of cold-weather gear and weapons in areas that are usually closed off during winter snows...