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...members. That would be on top of what is likely to be another round of lay-offs. With the national unemployment rate moving up as fast as it is and large numbers of pensions facing funding problems, the federal government may not want to be forced to support current and retired GM workers. Someone will have to pay for the healthcare of the tens of thousands of retired GM employees. Someone will have to pay unemployment for the tens of thousands of auto workers who do not have jobs and have no training to find new ones...
Unsurprisingly, the outcome doesn't look good. In a new study published April 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at UA found that water-deprived piñon pines raised in temperatures about 7° Fahrenheit (4° Celsius) above current averages died 28% faster than pines raised in today's climate. It's the first study to isolate the specific impact of temperature on tree mortality during drought - and it indicates that in a warmer world trees are likely to be significantly more vulnerable to the threat of drought than they are today...
...czars’ who have transformed social programming at Harvard.” Sidwell is no stranger to social coordinating. She has served as Hospitality Chair and Production Chair for the Harvard Concert Commission and as Director of Alumni for the Fellows Program at the Institute of Politics. She currently works in the College Dean’s Office as the Room Reservations Coordinator and serves on the Advisory Board of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH). “I’ve been a social planner for as long as I can remember,” Sidwell...
...some extent, the report addresses our concerns: It calls for the creation of a House fellows program, which addresses many of the shortcomings of the current SCR system. In particular, we are excited about the new program’s mandate that its fellows facilitate meaningful interaction within the House community through lectures, discussion dinners, and integration into the larger network of House advising through liaisons with graduate students. Per the committee’s recommendations, we hope to see the College pilot the House fellows program in one or two Houses and, if successful, require all 12 Houses...
...force the then government to step down because they considered the ruling party to be a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 army coup. In December, the courts dissolved that ruling party for electoral fraud, and the opposition, led by current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, formed a coalition government...