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12-02
- Malta for the ages
The bay was decorated with Malta's trademark luzzu fishing boats as a chilly spring breeze floated in off the Mediterranean. The tiny craft in an electric rainbow of colors -- each with the traditional Eye of Osiris peering from the bows -- bobbed along the half-moon of the shore and for hundreds of yards into the bay.
On many boats， fishermen sat in the morning sun mending nets afte... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：生活
2008
12-02
- Perfect Pairings for a dinner & movie
This is not dinner and a movie： Gobble a bag of liquid-buttered movie-theater popcorn， chew through a box of Skittles and stain your insides with a $5 bucket of soda.
Yack. If it's date night， that's not a good idea. Skip the gooey concessions， please.
Dinner and a movie should really mean dinner and a movie. This age-old combo might not be the most groundbreaking experience， bu... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：生活
2008
12-02
- State may lose a Congressional seat by 2011
- Minnesota will likely lose a Congressional seat after the 2010 census for the first time in 50 years.
Minnesota’s population is growing faster than many states， State Demographer Tom Gillaspy said at a University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute forum on Monday， but still slower than the national average.
Each state is guaranteed one seat in the U.S. House， while the remaining 385 seats are divvi... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：生活
2008
12-01
- 学费飙涨 大学窄门更窄了
- 金融危机给美国高等教育带来重创。私立大学捐款减少、公立大学面临经费削减。几乎冻结的学生贷款也使学生和家长面临短期的资金困境。 大学最有可能的因应之道是调涨学费。在学费负担已经超负荷的情况下，对于无数工作朝不保夕、储蓄与投资缩水的工薪家庭来说，供孩子读大学在未来几年将是更艰巨的任务。一位跻身教育界管理层的华裔说：“学费如再涨，有些华人恐怕会被手头拮据逼到上不起大学。”
这场经济困境产生的影响是全方位的。大学的办学经费明显减少，美国家庭更因为景气不佳而削弱了支付学费的能力。
一般靠捐赠和学费维持办学的私立大学，在这次金融危机中受损不小，连传统上较富裕的长春藤名校也不例外。哈佛大学校长佛斯特（Drew Gilpin Faust）最近表示，金融危机严重影响到哈佛，该校正考虑未来两年如何削减开支。哈佛大学今年夏天还拥有360亿元捐赠经费，但股市大跌使这笔钱大幅缩水。
公立大学情形更糟。各州纷纷... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：教育
2008
12-01
- 购物季大惊喜 业绩升3%
- 专家预期今年将出现几十年来最黯淡的圣诞购物季，可是28日购物季正式展开当天业绩却出奇的好，不过这可能是零售业牺牲利润，大幅降价促销以吸引人潮所致。
追踪超过5万家商店业绩的芝加哥Shopper Track RCT公司的初步资料显示，感恩节次日的“黑色星期五”，零售业营业额达到106亿元，比去年增加3%。
该公司主管说，面对经济情势难料和全球金融动乱，还有这种成绩非常不容易，也反映特价促销成果丰硕。不过，今年的成长率仍远低于去年的8.3%。
专家认为连3%的成长率都可能难以为继，尤其今年从“黑色星期五”到圣诞节只有27天，少于去年的32天。
感恩节后的3个周末，零售业的生意可能占整个圣诞销售的10%，今年的情况更值得注意。
虽然许多商店大打折扣，可是一些购物者还不满意，希望更接近圣诞节时能出现更低价格。这对穷于应付微薄利润的零售商是不利迹象。
J.C. Penney百货公司表示，... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：经济
2008
12-01
- State now requires “fire-safe” cigarettes
They don’t look very different and they cost about the same， but starting Monday， all the cigarettes in the state of Minnesota will be “fire safe.”
A law passed in 2007 goes into effect Monday， requiring all cigarettes sold in the state to be fire safe， meaning the cigarette self-extinguishes if left unattended for too long.
The new bill is being applauded by tobacco control advocates a... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：生活
2008
11-29
- China calls Tibet youth group a terrorist organization
- A rundown two-story building in this Himalayan hill station might not seem to be the command center of a subversive group jangling the nerves of neighboring China. Monkeys clamber over the rooftop， and any stranger may walk through its front door.
Yet China calls the Tibetan Youth Congress "a terror group worse than (Osama) bin Laden's" and accuses it of stockpiling guns， bombs and... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：其它
2008
11-29
- Mall of America weathering financial storm
Strip malls across the nation may be shutting down or lacking tenants， but the nation's largest mall is staying strong in an economic crunch. The Mall of America has remained near maximum occupancy， and has bucked the trend among retailers with rising sales numbers.
After a record-breaking $50 million jump in sales last year， Mall of America sales are up around 4 percent this year， a... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：其它
2008
11-28
- Inauguration Day tickets in high demand
- For once， politics is the hottest ticket in town.
Demand for tickets to the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama has reached a fever pitch with less than two months until the event.
“Getting an invite to the inauguration — hard job，” Larry Jacobs， director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Humphrey Institute， said. “You and everyone else want to go.”
Most peo... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：其它
2008
11-28
- For Somalis, going home has its risks
Ilyas Maye， 24， is one of the young Minneapolis Somali men who has returned to his homeland. He went back last year， for three months.
"I went outside to see what the world had to offer me，" said Maye， who owns a clothing store on Lake Street in Minneapolis. "And I would go back again."
He did not， he insisted， go to fight. He went for a new perspective on his life i... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：生活
2008
11-28
- Minnesota's charter schools fall short of expectations
When charter schools started in Minnesota in the early 1990s， they were touted as a higher-quality alternative for parents， particularly poor and minority families， looking to escape underperforming district schools.
But a study released today by the University of Minnesota's Institute on Race and Poverty finds that most charter schools have fallen short of that promise and perform w... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：教育
2008
11-27
- Juvenile suspects linked to robberies
- Police say two arrested juveniles are suspects in several of the Marcy-Holmes robberies.
Two juveniles are charged with aggravated robbery， and one of them is charged with sexual assault， in the Nov. 18 Marcy-Holmes attempted rape.
Minneapolis police arrested the juveniles last week and have been connecting them to the other cases during an investigation of the string of six robberies， Minneapol... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：其它
2008
11-27
- 希拉里接受奥巴马邀请将出任美国国务卿
美国前第一夫人、纽约州国会参议员希拉里8月26日出席美国民主党全国代表大会，发表“谢幕”演讲。她呼吁民主党人支持奥巴马竞选总统。 中新社发 李静 摄
中新网11月22日电 美国福克斯电视新闻网21日报道，美国前第一夫人、纽约州联邦参议员希拉里·克林顿已接受美国总统当选人奥巴马的邀请，将出任奥巴马政府的国务卿。
报道说，希拉里经过一个星期的思考，以及针对外界对她的丈夫、前总统克林顿主持的一个国际基金的复杂财务问题，与奥巴马交接小组深入讨论后，决定接受奥巴马的邀请，接下国务卿职务。
报道说，这项人事可望于感恩节(27日)过后正式发布。
报道指出，一些民主党人士及熟悉情况的政府官员曾提醒奥巴马，要注意希拉里过于独立以及野心太大的问题，但奥巴马表示他看重的是希拉里的才华和经验。
此外，“纽约时报”21日也引述两位希拉里身边可信人士的话说，希拉里已作出接受奥巴马邀请的决定... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：文化
2008
11-27
- 意学童发博客侮辱华人 网站被封并公开道歉
- 据意大利《欧联时报》报道，11月初，意大利一个叫 “华人离开普拉托”( Via i cinesidaPrato！)博客网站突然出现在着名的FACEBOO社会网络上，仅短短几天时间，注册博客达到了1500多人，这些博客在网站上“抱怨”移民，并陆续发帖谩骂侮辱华人和阿尔巴尼亚移民，还有人发
起评论阿尔巴尼亚人和中国人看谁更糟糕让网友发表意见。
据调查，“中国人离开普拉托”博客网发起人是两名意大利学生，他们声称自己的意图是：把普拉托还给普拉托人，鉴于参与者使用的语言过于激烈和带有种族歧视色彩，管理员多次提醒大家要注意使用的词汇和语气，以免被指控为种族歧视。华裔博客西尔维娅-叶(SILVIAYE)则对那些侮辱华人的言论进行了反击。
目前，“华人离开普拉托”博客网站由于使用种族歧视性言论，攻击生活在普拉托的华人和其它国家移民被关闭。发起博客网的两名学生通过FACEBOO网向社会公开道歉，并向华... 点击查看全文 - 0 评论 | 分类：其它
2008
11-26
- University of Minnesota doctors battle AIDS in Uganda
Costa Kiggundu had one question for an American visitor to her home in a gritty Kampala slum： "What will happen if you stop sending the drugs？"
It's a life-or-death question for Kiggundu， her son and all of her friends at the clinic where she gets medicine to help her body fight HIV infection， which killed her husband.
Thanks to President Bush's drive to combat HIV/AID... 点击查看全文- 0 评论 | 分类：科技