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...benefit we get back is probably tenfold." Despite the scheme's success, though, it's unlikely Orica will extend it to other offices or provide on-site care, says McKinnon: "There is a philosophical debate - is it the role of employers to provide child-care facilities? Is it core business...
...none can we begin to feel satisfied,” wrote Kirby.Kirby’s intuitions are correct. The call to put the curricular review on hold until a new Dean of the Faculty has been appointed is erroneous for a number of reasons.First, we believe that the core of the review—the proposal to replace the current Core Curriculum with broader distribution requirements and optional broad foundational courses—would substantially benefit undergraduates. If it is approved this spring, it should apply retroactively to the Class of 2007 and subsequent graduating classes, so current students...
...challenge facing these new-media endeavors is for networks to expand their audiences and capture new viewers without damaging their core business. After all, the average American from 18 to 49 years old still watches 41/2 hr. of television daily, says Morgan Stanley managing director Richard Bilotti, while the same demographic stays online each day for only 57 min. Larry Kramer, digital president for CBS--among the most active networks in the new-media space--finds it's "a real balancing act" to experiment aggressively without jeopardizing the Eye's stately brand. "A lot of this activity is meant...
...weighing about 440 lbs. Other documents show a sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but U.S. officials say the design of the sphere--an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because of the size and weight and the power source going into it and height-of-burst requirements," says the diplomat, Western experts have...
...associated with child abuse. (Although practiced by early Mormons, polygamy is banned by the church, the show notes in a disclaimer.) Bill was abandoned by his polygamist family as a boy, only to return to his religious roots in midlife. "He's on a spiritual quest," says Paxton. "His core belief is that we're put on this earth to procreate. He's a healthy apple tree, and it's his job to produce healthy apples...