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...children - up from 70 a little over a decade ago. In Britain, where school lunches can be an awful reminder of the country's fat- and starch-filled culinary past, celebrity chef Oliver's campaign to improve school food standards bore fruit in March when the government announced an extra $533 million to tackle the crisis. The extra money will be spent on better ingredients and in areas with the poorest services; beginning in September 2006, schools will be required to follow a set of nutrition guidelines drawn up by experts - though some schools say they are locked into decades...
...branch you want. The problems intersect because studies have shown that cadets who got their first choice were 10% more likely to stay beyond their minimum service. The simple proposal, beta-tested on the class of '05, was to have cadets bid on how much extra service--a minimum ante of 18 months--they would be willing to offer if they could get their first branch choice. After receiving all bids, West Point decided to award first choice to anyone who had offered two extra years or more of service. The program was a wild success: average students got into...
...LASIK eye surgery so she could qualify for aviation, even though the date fell during swimming season and she was team captain. It was the first time she had ever voluntarily missed a swim meet. She turned down an invitation from the swim-team coach to stay on an extra year as a graduate assistant. She's in a hurry now. She can't wait to get to Fort Rucker (or Mother Rucker, as it's known to cadets) in Alabama and start flying, even though by choosing aviation, with its expensive training regimen, she had to promise an extra...
Mayer said that there would be no noticeable costs to providing the extra few meals and that he was happy students informed HUDS of the scheduling mistake...
...this end, we suggest a policy by which committed TFs can apply to teach for an extra two years at a time beyond their six-year limit. There should be an application process that takes into account consistently high Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide ratings, as well as the recommendations of the faculty teaching the courses in which these outstanding TFs work. As long as the threshold of achievement in teaching is high enough, TFs who are not both devoted to their students and exceptionally gifted at teaching will be unable to stay past the limit. We don?...