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...faculty have an important stake in ensuring that undergraduate disciplinary matters are handled in a fair manner,” Losick said...
...woman's health. The slim majority here - five conservative justices led by Anthony Kennedy - skirted that rule by saying medical experts can't agree whether a woman would ever need this method to stay healthy (the law does contain an exception if the woman's life is at stake). So, they argued, the absence of a health exception doesn't make the law unconstitutional on its face - a substantial nick in the armor that has protected the right to abortion since...
...Sunni insurgency has neither a stake in the government nor a single, top-down leadership structure. And, while death squad violence against Sunnis has declined, there is no sign of a corresponding rise in Sunni participation in the political process. The national government and its ministries are still dominated by Shi'ites, who vastly outnumber Sunnis in the Iraqi security forces. For many Sunnis, the Baghdad security plan simply raises the specter of Shi'ite harassment, oppression and murder...
Petrobras started this free after-work program to teach reading, arithmetic and elementary science in 2005 after officials noticed an unusually high number of accidents occurring on the shop floor because laborers could not read warning signs. More than just the workers' safety and Petrobras' productivity is at stake. The woeful state of education in Brazil, the world's fifth largest country, is compromising productivity and competitiveness and acting as a brake on the country's development, according to economists, businesspeople and educators. With the economies of China and India surging ahead, thanks in part to their large pools...
...here to go to the Caribbean for four or five days with my wife, all expenses paid, just to go listen to a student-loan lender," says Dan Davenport, financial-aid director at the University of Idaho, which remains dedicated to direct lending. "There's such big money at stake that people are willing to do many different things to get that piece...