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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Top U.S. Firms Are Cash-Rich Abroad, Cash-Poor at Home .
By KATE LINEBAUGH
Emerson Electric Co. EMR +0.34% has $2 billion of cash in the bank. But this
year it had to borrow money in the U.S. to help buy back shares, distribute
dividends and even pay its taxes.
That's because "substantially all" of Emerson's cash is in Europe and Asia,
according to the company's filings with securities regulators. The maker of
power-plant and data-center equipment could always bring that cash back home
, but it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Tenants Feel Pinch of Rising Rents
By CONOR DOUGHERTY
Record-low mortgage rates mean that homeowners have a smaller financial
burden for their residences than at any time since the early 1980s.
But here's the bad news: Rising rents are squeezing many families and
leaving them with less to spend.
Several factors have pushed rents up. Rental and apartment housing is in
short supply but demand has grown after several years of foreclosures and
population growth.
Across the U.S., "effective" monthly ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 by Patrick Ryan
Add Virginia to the list of states that are cutting work hours to avoid
offering health insurance to part-time employees.
Per The Washington Examiner:
About 10,000 Virginia public employees are poised to see their hours cut
back as Gov. Bob McDonnell continues to find ways around what he said were
President Obama’s costly health care reforms.
Both the Virginia House and Senate passed budget amendments that will
cap part-time state workers at 29 hours a week to avoi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 824 | 4 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/09/colorado-immigrant-t
The cheers of immigrant students echoed through the Colorado Capitol on
Friday after the House passed a bill allowing students who entered the U.S.
illegally to pay lower college tuition, a measure that will soon become law.
Students hugged and wiped away tears outside the House chamber after the
vote, sending the proposal to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is
expected to sign it sometime this month.
The historic vote comes a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 5 保險業者說,對某些自己買保險個人和小企業來說,明年保費可能會大漲.
Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many
individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of
the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting
that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.
這跟歐巴馬行政團隊所說的保費會減少不一致
The projected increases are at odds with what the Obama Administration says
consumers should be expecting overall in terms of cost. The Department of
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Small-business owners across the U.S. are bracing for the health-care law
that kicks in next year, fearing it will increase the cost of providing
insurance to employees.
But Rick Levi, a business owner in Des Moines, Iowa, is among those
considering the government's escape hatch: paying a penalty to avoid the law
's "employer mandate."
Under the Affordable Care Act, employers with 50 or more full-time workers
will be required to provide coverage for employees who work an average of 30
or more ho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 CBS: FBI and al Qaeda “Struggling” to Identify Who Was Behind Boston
Bombing
by Jammie
We had no idea al Qaeda was investigating the Boston Marathon bombing. Maybe
due to the Obama Sequester cuts we need their help.
As FBI investigators comb through photo and video evidence for new leads
as to who was behind the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, it seems al Qaeda
and its most fervent supporters are equally perplexed, but eagerly hoping
the sinister act can be claimed by the group.
CBS New... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Appeals court hears challenge to gay therapy ban
April 17, 2013
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday grappled with
California's first-in-the-nation bid to bar licensed mental health
professionals from offering therapies aimed at making gay and lesbian
teenagers straight.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals closely questioned both
sides during the 90-minute hearing as it considered two challenges to the
ban on "sexual-orientatio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Newtown budget with extra school security rejected
April 24, 2013
, Associated Press
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Residents have rejected a budget that included money
for extra school security in the wake of the December school shootings, with
town leaders suggesting the spending and required tax increases were a hard
sell.
Voters on Tuesday turned down the $72 million school budget by 482 votes and
rejected the $39 million town government budget by 62 votes. Nearly 4,500
residents voted on the plans, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 Pathetic Obama Blames Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for His Failures
by Jammie
Starting year six of his failed presidency, the petulant man-child lashes
out like a three-year-old. Without the evil Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, he’
s apparently have a 100% approval.
What a dick.
President Obama said that gridlock on Capitol Hill stemmed from an
inability to “penetrate the Republican base” and convince voters there
that he’s “not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh,”
rather tha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Bolton: ‘Our Biggest National-Security Problem Is Barack Obama’
By Eliana Johnson
March 6, 2014 11:02 AM
With the Obama administration grappling with a crisis in Ukraine, former
United Nations ambassador John Bolton took the stage at the Conservative
Political Action Conference on Thursday and declared that the country’s “
biggest national-security problem is Barack Obama.”
Bolton honed in on the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, which he described
as paradigm of President Obama’s foreign-policy... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 D.C. Council Approves Tax to Aid Health Exchange
Proposal to Fund Insurance Exchange Starting Next Year
By
Louise Radnofsky
May 6, 2014 8:25 p.m. ET
The city council of Washington, D.C., voted Tuesday to allow a tax on all
health insurers selling inside the district to fund its Affordable Care Act
insurance marketplace.
The plan, submitted by the city's DC Health Link insurance exchange, gives
the city the power to tax all health-insurance carriers inside the district
for exchange funding. Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Chuck Hagel Steps Down as Defense Secretary
Officials Say White House Asked Hagel to Leave Over Handling of War Against
Islamic State
.
By
Julian E. Barnes And
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will step down from his position, President
Barack Obama announced Monday, marking a major realignment in the
administration’s senior leadership as it grapples with multiple military
and foreign-policy challenges, including a new war against Islamic militants.
Officials said Mr. Hagel was asked to step down... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 If Rachel Dolezal Has a ‘Right’ to Be Black, American Public Policy Will
Have to Play Catch-Up
by Charles C. W. Cooke June 17, 2015 12:09 PM
@charlescwcooke
Echoing sentiments that have been hinted at by MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry
and The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, a professor of law and sociology at the
USC Gould School of Law today argues that Rachel Dolezal has a “right to be
black.” Here’s her conclusion:
Dolezal’s case forces us to examine our society, which made her feel
that passing... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 16 Several big U.S. cities see homicide rates surge
After years of declining violent crime, several major American cities
experienced a dramatic surge in homicides during the first half of this year.
Milwaukee, which last year had one of its lowest annual homicide totals in
city history, recorded 84 murders so far this year, more than double the 41
it tallied at the same point last year.
Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said the mounting homicide toll in his
city of 600,000 is driven by Wisconsi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Exclusive: DEA chief says heroin ‘back with a vengeance,’ drugs a national
security threat
By James Rosen, Matt DeanPublished September 05, 2015
“Not much of a gambler,” Chuck Rosenberg says about himself, a tad
sheepishly. Indeed, in the seven deadly sins department, the new chief of
the Drug Enforcement Administration is something of a zero: He’s never
smoked marijuana, doesn’t drink alcohol, and lists as his only vice an
excessive intake of Diet Dr. Pepper.
Such abstemiousness may be a prized... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 For Guyana, a small nation on the northern coast of South America, Exxon
Mobil is a welcome potential savior.
Even as the energy industry grapples with low oil prices and countries
around the world struggle to adjust to a new paradigm, it’s worth keeping
in mind the example of Guyana.
The country produces no oil currently and is relatively poor with a GDP per
capita of around $8,000 annually. All that appears poised to change thanks
to Exxon Mobil.
Last year, Exxon Mobil announced that they had ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 19 In the lead-up to Donald Trump’s loss in Iowa, staffers sought additional
funding for campaign infrastructure and were denied.
Now, six days from the New Hampshire primary and looking for his first win,
Trump is still refusing to shake up his ground game. He has added just one
paid organizer in the state, a move that came a month ago. Instead, he is
pushing ahead with plans to campaign outside of the state in the final week
of voting and will count on the glamour of famous surrogates, including ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 定性了：恐怖袭击加hate crime
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 15 15:08:28 2016, 美东)
坚决贯彻，领会大统令的精神
An FBI official on Wednesday called the Sunday shooting at a gay nightclub
in Orlando, Fla., both a hate crime and an act of terror.
"This was an act of violence, born out of hate, that inflicted terror on an
entire community," special agent in charge Ron Hopper told reporters in
Florida.
"So I would call it a hate crime, I would call it terrorism — ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 23666 | 23 all from reddit:
I am in the UK. There is a D-Notice over reporting that power has been
disabled at the embassy and military units have encircled the premises.
Julian is being apprehended and the UK is willfully violating the
sovereignty of an embassy as an unprecedented decision for state actors.
Armed police, stationed ahead of those in military fatigues, are doing crowd
control and preventing any approach with some courtesy. The military seem
to be using grappling hooks and thermal imaging de... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 24 WASHINGTON — Days before the presidential election, James Alefantis, owner
of a local pizza restaurant called Comet Ping Pong, noticed an unusual spike
in the number of his Instagram followers.
Within hours, menacing messages like “we’re on to you” began appearing in
his Instagram feed. In the ensuing days, hundreds of death threats — one
read “I will kill you personally” — started arriving via texts, Facebook
and Twitter. All of them alleged something that made Mr. Alefantis’s jaw
drop: that Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8397 | 25 这段最有意思
“And in a notorious Yale Law Journal article, feminist law professor Wendy
Brown wrote about an experience in which, after a wilderness hike, she
returned to her car to find it wouldn’t start. A man in an NRA hat spent a
couple of hours helping her get it going, but rather than display
appreciation for this act of unselfishness, Brown wrote that she was lucky
she had friends along, as a guy like that was probably a rapist.”
这个就是那个Wendy Brow http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/wendy-... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3433 | 26 去年4月到今年1月，超过2000人从美国偷渡进大家拿申请避难。最近偷渡人数剧增。如
果政策继续，加上墨西哥护照免签，估计今年大家拿会有几万新难民和非法移民。
Officials across Canada have seen a sharp increase in the number of refugee
claimants illegally crossing the U.S. border.
In Manitoba, the small city of Emerson has been grappling with a sudden
influx of refugees into the town that borders North Dakota and Minnesota.
Reuters reports that 430 asylum seekers crossed Manitoba’s border between
April 2016 and the end of January 2017, up from 340 in the 2015-16 fiscal
year ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 27 Trump the Dealmaker Projects Bravado, but Behind the Scenes, Faces Rare Self
-Doubt
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN
MARCH 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump, the author of “The Art of the Deal,” has
been projecting his usual bravado in public this week about the prospects of
repealing the Affordable Care Act. Privately he is grappling with rare
bouts of self-doubt.
Mr. Trump has told four people close to him that he regrets going along with
Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plan to push a health car... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 28 NYT: Trump Fires Warning Shot in Battle Between Bannon and Kushner
WASHINGTON — As he grappled on Thursday with his first major decision
involving military action, a fed-up and frustrated President Trump turned to
his two top aides and told them he had had enough of their incessant knife-
fights in the media.
“Work this out,” Mr. Trump said, according to two people briefed on the
exchange. The admonition was aimed at Stephen K. Bannon, the tempestuous
chief strategist, and Reince Priebus, the mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3433 | 29 The suspect behind the Stockholm truck attack had been facing deportation
and had extremist sympathies, Swedish police say.
The 39-year-old Uzbek man is suspected of having driven a truck into a
department store in the city on Friday.
His application for residency was rejected in June last year and he was
being sought by immigration officials, police said.
Meanwhile, a second suspect has been placed under formal arrest.
Police said they were investigating the second suspect for a "terrorist
crim... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2053 | 30 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-
and-himself-to-the-precipice.html
Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to
a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his
ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.
By MIKE ISAACAPRIL 23, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple
’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the
iPhone maker. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading.
Fo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 31 Ivanka Trump Parts Ways With Her Father on Syrian Refugees
— Ivanka Trump, juggling dual roles of White House adviser and daughter of
the president, said in an interview aired on Wednesday that the United
States might need to admit more refugees from Syria, a pointed public
departure from one of her father’s bedrock populist positions.
Ms. Trump’s comments, which seemed to question the basis for President
Trump’s two executive orders that tried to bar migrants from Syria and
other predominantly ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 32 Albert Cashier served in the army as a man, lived his life as man and was
buried at 71 with full military honors in 1915, as a man. But beneath the
uniform in which he fought and was buried, he was biologically a woman, one
of the many cross-dressers and gender defiers who have served in the U.S.
military since the earliest days of its history, according to historians.
President Trump’s proclamation by tweet Wednesday that he was banning
transgender people from serving in the military in “any ca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5818 | 33 Booker 公开，明知违反senate 条例 发布 marked “委员会机密” judge 的 email；
其实email 的内容到没有什么 “damaging” 材料针对 judge，但cooker 这一行为 给
龟相出个难题，不只是否 按条例惩处，还是不了了之，
但 cooker 这一行为，给他自己在 民主党党内初选加分不少！
Sen. Cory Booker told Brett Kavanaugh during Thursday's hearing he was
willing to "knowingly violate" the rules of the Senate Judiciary Committee
— and risk his position — in order to make the public aware of an email
from the Supreme Court nominee on the issue of racial profiling.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker injected chaos into... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3433 | 34 就这两句话，怎么都看不出这个judge怎么就成racist了。大学race-based admission
反而不是racist, 而是diversity。作弊就是这样到处spin, 越来越让人讨厌。
一天到晚打滚耍泼。
In the email, Kavanaugh, who was working as a lawyer in the Bush White House
, said he “generally” favored race-neutral security measures, but said
they need to “grapple” with the “interim question of what to do before a
truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and
implemented.”
Kavanaugh wrote that the “interim question” is of “critical importance to
the secur... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24733 | 35 While senators grapple over what to do with the sexual assault accusation
levied against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a Minnesota political
activist is continuing to allege Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was physically
and emotionally abusive when they dated.
Karen Monahan, a Sierra Club activist, accused Ellison of abuse in August
after her son publicly posted the allegations on social media. She said
Ellison dragged her off a bed while shouting profanities at her and sent
multiple abus... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 36 Is China Waiting Us Out?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-china-waiting-us-out/
While the U.S. bombs, Xi Jinping is building—one power play at a time.
By MICHAEL HORTON • October 22, 2018
Michael Hogue
The one constant in recent U.S. foreign policy—regardless of which party
occupies the White House or controls Congress—is that it prioritizes
military intervention, both covert and overt, to advance its interests
overseas. While President Barack Obama vowed to move the U... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2136 | 37 Oil industry protest campaign adds to summer heat on President Barack Obama
Protests against Barack Obama are spreading across America like wildfire on
a summer prairie, fuelled by an angry and fearful oil industry.
By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Published: 7:04PM BST 22 Aug 2009
Still grappling on one front with opponents of his healthcare reforms, the
President now faces a separate battle against an equally powerful foe:
America's oil companies.
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发帖数: 7521 | 38 How America Can Rise Again
Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our culture of innovation. In most significant ways, the U.S. remains the envy of the world. But here’s the alarming problem: our governin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 39 发信人: laodou (别拿豆包不当干粮), 信区: Military
标 题: 媒体立即转向，授予文迪＂虎妻＂称号
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jul 19 14:39:16 2011, 美东)
Will the foam pie incident change everything?
More than anything Rupert Murdoch or his son James said before the
Parliamentary panel on Tuesday, it may be the attack on Murdoch—and his
wife literally leaping to his defense—that changes public opinion about the
scandal that has led to the closing of The News of the World and the
resignations of top News Corp [NWSA 15.7511 0.7861 ( 5.25%) ]
of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3693 | 41 Some interesting thing James Sikes, the driver for that Prius :
http://autos.aol.com/article/prius-driver-scam/
The reports indicate that prior to his unintended acceleration incident,
James Sikes and his wife -- both realtors -- found themselves grappling with
California's notorious housing bubble and filed for bankruptcy in 2008.
Reports show they have $700,000 in debt to their names. He already had a
motor home, Mercedes-Benz automobile and Dodge Truck repossessed in the
proceedings with cred... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 338 | 42 Apple May Face Shortages for IPad After Quake, ISuppli Says
By Adam Satariano - Mar 17, 2011 4:28 PM MT
Apple Inc. (AAPL) may face logistical problems and supply shortages for components of its iPad 2 tablet after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, according to IHS iSuppli.
Five parts for the device are made in Japan and could be affected by the disaster, the research firm said today in an e-mailed statement. They include Nand flash-memory chips from Toshiba Corp. (6502); dynamic rand... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3262 | 43 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/23/us-amazon-sellers-idU
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is grappling with a problem that eBay Inc has
struggled with for years: The proliferation of unauthorized third-party
sellers that undercut the world's top consumer brands.
The sellers offer online shoppers goods ranging from Guess watches to LG
televisions and Adidas sportswear at low prices, upsetting Amazon suppliers
who want the world's largest online retailer to crack down on unauthorized
discounting.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 836 | 44 有个term 叫Polyamory：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory
已经有不少人在practice Polyamory.
Showtime 最近拍了个纪录片展现加州的一批practice Polyamory的人：
http://www.sho.com/sho/polyamory-married-and-dating/home
About the Series
This provocative reality series takes an inside look at non-monogamous,
committed relationships that involve more than two people. Lindsey and
Anthony are married and live in a triad (three-way relationship) with their
girlfriend, Vanessa. Husband and wife Michael and Kamala (who have a young
s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2994 | 45 学校图书馆职位。
有意愿的可以通过站短提供申请地址，最迟下周末要把申请提交完毕。提醒，简历要实
事求是，查推荐人时会核实申请者的背景经历是否和所写的一致。推荐人最好是直接的
上司或导师（老师），同事，前同事也可以。
没有明显专业，学历要求，但是MASTER,PHD会提高录取机会。工资不高，5~8万，新英格
兰地区。福利内幕：403B 每年8% （服务5年后可以带走80%）退休基金。医疗保险100%
cover, co-pay 10 元。 孩子大学每年每个小孩1.5万 补助。最后提供OFFER时可以参
考同学校同等职位的最高，最低，平均工资。
SCIENTIFIC DATA CURATOR
The *** University Library invites applications for the position of
Scientific Data Curator. As the Library’s primary liaison for scientific
data management, the Scientific Data Curator plays a central ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2994 | 46 has been open since last June. not filled yet. starting another wave of
searching.
Pleas PM for University's name if you are interested. Should have
information degree or experiences
SCIENTIFIC DATA CURATOR
With its talented and motivated student body and accomplished faculty, ****
is a leading research university that maintains a particular commitment to
exceptional undergraduate instruction and a strong research environment in
support of the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
As the Library’s prima... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7881 | 47 An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they
’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,”
while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.
Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side
claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several
other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’
t buying it.
A slide from the Bank School shows the different goals... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 48 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/your-money/26money.html?hp
From Card Fees to Mortgages, a New Day for Consumers
At last, it’s settled.
After months of haggling, the terms of financial reform are set, so long as
both houses of Congress vote to accept them in the coming days.
While elected officials spent much of their time working out the details of
regulating complex derivatives and grappling with whether banks ought to
make big bets with their own money, they also set a number of new rules th |
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发帖数: 19398 | 49 幼教数学 What is Early Math and Why Should We Care?
[Posted by Ben Braun]
By Jennifer S. McCray, Assistant Research Scientist and Director of the
Early Math Collaborative at Erikson Institute [SEE http://www.erikson.edu/early-math-collaborative/ -- See this site]
Effective early childhood math teaching is much more challenging than most
people anticipate. Because the math is foundational, many people assume it
takes little understanding to teach it, and unfortunately this is distinctly
not the case... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19398 | 50 Stanford neuroscience research identifies more effective way to teach
abstract math concepts to children
A new study shows that students who use symmetry to learn about numbers tap
into critical brain circuits. The approach appears promising in improving
math skills in general.
By Edmund L. Andrews
(Courtesy AAALab@Stanford)
Building on new discoveries about how the brain grapples with abstract
mathematics, researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education (https://
ed.stanford.edu/) have dev... 阅读全帖 |
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