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...sins, it would offer students the chance to vote on such a scaling back of its responsibilities and reducing its expenses. But since this is unlikely to happen, I recommend a partial opt-out procedure where students can hold the UC accountable and improve their social lives as well.The scheme is simple. Students who currently pay the Student Activities Fee divide up into groups of four, and select one group member to opt-out of the termbill payment. This member then agrees to take the other three out for drinks, dinner, dancing, a play, or some other activity that costs...
...patients have a severe negative reaction to these drugs. That's a small percentage. But it's a small percentage of a very large number. Intractable misery is rife, it seems: in Australia last year, 12 million prescriptions for antidepressants were dispensed through the federal government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (up from 8.2 million in 1998), a figure equating to more than a million users. Do the math, says Sydney forensic psychiatrist Yolande Lucire: if only 1% of users suffer terrible side effects that aren't recognized for what they are, that's more than 10,000 Australians...
...team guy in there who’s a freshman, things just completely fell apart. There was no confidence from the kicker, the holder, the snapper. There was just no execution.” On the two blocked kicks, Schindel had no chance—the blocking scheme appeared to break down almost immediately, and a number of Penn defenders easily broke through the line. Coming into action Saturday, Schindel had been 7-of-7 on field goals and hadn’t had one blocked all year. Both of those streaks came to an end against...
...boyish-looking Badian, 36, of East European descent, seems an unlikely key figure in a high-stakes Wall Street intrigue. Yet long-standing criminal and civil charges place Badian at the center of a scheme to lend Arizona software developer Sedona much needed operating capital, then trigger the collapse of its stock and profit from the company's demise. This pattern is also alleged in the civil suit handed to Badian on Aug. 8 in his apartment in Austria--only this time the mark was pet-supplies company Pet Quarters, based in Lonoke...
After all, as Senior Manager for Instructional Computing Paul F. Bergen says, podcasting adds mobility and personalization to the equation. “iTunes isn’t a requirement for podcasting, but we’d want to incorporate iTunes into whatever scheme happens at Harvard,” says Bergen...