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...program, which recruited 21 Ph.D.s for a one-year teaching and research fellowship, was initially conceived as a cost-cutting mechanism. Since the hiring slowdown limited the number of new lecturers FAS could hire last year, the new program provided a much cheaper alternative...
Some administrators, however, consider the College Fellow Program to be more than a mere economic solution to the hiring slowdown. For some, the initiative also provides former graduate students the rare opportunity to spend a year developing their teaching skills, thereby making them more competitive in the job market...
...video-game addiction, South Korea is setting a curfew for online play. Underage players will have to abide by an automated blackout period after midnight and become accustomed to slower connection speeds after long periods of use during earlier hours. While currently limited to a handful of games, the "slowdown" plan will eventually apply to the 19 role-playing titles that comprise 79% of the nation's online-gaming market. A recent survey of 1,500 South Korean public-school students found that 29.3% of them exhibit signs of addiction...
SCRB had originally been slated to move into the Science Complex, long heralded as the centerpiece of interdisciplinary research in Allston. But with the Dec. 2008 news of the slowdown in Allston construction, the University decided to relocate the SCRB to Fairchild...
...more wars Britain engages in, the greater the spike in applications to join its armed forces. (The economic slowdown has also boosted interest in military careers.) But some of those potential recruits are going to be disappointed: the army is only 570 troops short of its mandated full strength of 102,070. On March 22 the Ministry of Defence announced a "rebalancing" of the army that will see some soldiers discharged and troops with appropriate specialisms brought in to replace them...