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...malnourishment is at the state and local level. Yesterday’s Washington Post reports how widespread layoffs and curtailment of services by state and local governments are accelerating in spite of the $135 billion dollar “stabilization fund” that is being funneled to the states from the stimulus package (a fund cut by more than $40 billion to win the support of the three Republican senators who voted for cloture). The worst is yet to come. The executive director of the National Governors Association has testified that states are facing a $200 billion deficit over...
...jihadist suicide bombings since the deadly March 2004 attacks in Madrid, but on Tuesday morning there was another grim reminder that the threat of terrorism is far from over. Italian police in the southern city of Bari announced that they are holding two French nationals whom authorities call "top-level point men" for "al-Qaeda in Europe" and who were allegedly plotting kamikaze strikes in France and the U.K. - including one purportedly targeting the Charles de Gaulle airport. Counter-terrorism authorities in Paris tell TIME, meanwhile, that they believe the pair is only one part of a wider jihadist network...
According to Bloxham, Mitrovica is well known for discovering the method for “fingerprinting sea level changes”—that is, pinpointing the locations of melted ice caps from the subsequent effects on the gravity field...
...think there will still be the occasional senior search where there’s a targeted opportunity which we really find irresistible, but we really have to put the emphasis on hiring at the junior level,” he said in a phone interview yesterday. “If we didn’t hire junior faculty for certain years, then we would end up all senior, and obviously that’s not a place we want...
Smith announced a recent Undergraduate Council meeting that FAS will have 19 junior faculty searches next year—but none at the senior level...