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Fast Company also commented on the sad cost situation in How To Save $244,000 On Your Education . You, too, can experience the best that American education has to offer–without enrolling at NYU. Might I recommend that the curious would-be undergraduate or returning student check out: Coursera , one of the three major Massive Open Online Course platforms, just announced a $43 million Series B round of funding to expand its mobile apps, API, and its "Signature Series" classes, which can be taken for a small fee and applied for college credit.
For the alleged reason of efficiency, Target to hire fewer seasonal holiday workers . Target (TGT) plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the holiday shopping season, down about 20 percent from a year ago. The discounter is aiming to be more efficient in its hiring practices.
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I remarried June of this year to Liz (see Celebrating Life: I Got Married on Friday ) Digger Bee Attack With that background out of the way, here is the story on "digger bees". Tonight I was digging in the garden, just before sunset, and accidentally hit a huge nest of yellow jackets (Liz calls them digger bees because they live in the ground). I got stung about 15 times, one right near my eye, the rest on my arms and back.
Some people think the Fed’s actions are purposeful, but in a favorable sense. For example, please consider Bernanke Buys Time for Brazil to India as Rupee Leads Rally The Federal Reserve’s surprise decision to refrain from scaling back monetary stimulus provided a respite to investors in emerging markets, where currencies are in the midst of their worst rout in two years.“It gives everyone some breathing time,†Denise Simon, an emerging-market fixed income manager at Lazard Asset Management, which oversees $147 billion, said by phone from New York. “It certainly takes some of the immediate pressure off the more vulnerable countries
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