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The student applying for the Teach for America program, which recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in underprivileged urban and rural public schools, knows that she must convince readers of her suitability to such a demanding commitment, and she has just two short essays with which to do so. She successfully achieves this through examples related to service mission work that she completed in Ecuador before entering college.
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Earthquakes rattle our psyches as well as our structures. We Californians can crack jokes about jumpy East Coast types, but the truth is, our blood pressure also rises precipitously when the Earth suddenly springs to life, without so much as a warning. Events such as this past week’s magnitude-5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia, which shook up lots of people without inflicting tremendous damage, offer a good wakeup call: They provide a chance to consider our response and preparedness plans, and to reconsider what we really know and don’t know about earthquakes.
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Written during a height of US involvement in Iraq, this essay manages the intriguing challenge of how a member of the military can make an effective case for on-line graduate study. The obvious need here, especially for an Air Force pilot of seven years, is to keep the focus on academic interests rather than, say, battle successes and the number of missions flown. An additional challenge is to use military experience and vocabulary in a way that is not obscure nor off-putting to academic selection committee members. To address these challenges, this writer intertwines his literacy in matters both military and academic, keeping focus on applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), his chosen field of graduate study.
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The computer security breach in Sony Corp.'s online PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service last week struck a serious, though not fatal, blow to Chief Executive Howard Stringer's ambitions for a world of connected entertainment in which consumers can access and buy all manner of content through Sony devices, according to entertainment and security analysts. The attack, which exposed the personal information and possibly credit card data of 77 million customer accounts, was disclosed Tuesday, more than a week after the computer systems were breached. Sony's admission triggered an immediate backlash, with consumers filing at least two lawsuits against the company and lawmakers condemning it for failing to notify customers sooner. "Hackers and thieves shouldn't be playing 'Grand Theft Auto' with millions of addresses, emails and other sensitive information," Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement Wednesday, echoing the condemnation issued Tuesday by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
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The players have to observe the rules of this game. No player except the goal-keeper can touch the ball with his hands. Otherwise he will commit the wrong of handling the ball. Here the other party gets an advantage of charging a free ball. Throw ball, corner ball are such wrongs that give advantages to the opposite party.
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Anywhere someone is lifting a weight, strapping on a football helmet or lacing up running shoes, there's probably a big bottle of green, blue or neon orange liquid nearby. Gatorade, Powerade and other sports drinks have drenched just about every sport in America, from triathlons to pee-wee soccer. But sports drinks are also popular with spectators in the stands, kids playing video games, long haul truckers and office workers. Lots of people chug down sports drinks without ever breaking a sweat.
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It has become a grave concern, particularly as uniformed women take on more roles. Military sexual trauma, which encompasses everything from sexual harassment to rape, is now the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder among women in the U.S. military. Female soldiers today are 180 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy. Sufferers often spiral downward into alcohol and substance abuse, depression, and homelessness. "It just pulls the skin off you," said one former Army Reserve officer, who retreated to a mobile home deep in the woods after she was assaulted. But sexual abuse often goes unreported. In 2011, there were around 3,000 official cases of military sexual assault, but a report commissioned by then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta put the actual annual number at 19,000 or more. An anonymous survey of more than 1,100 women who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, conducted last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that almost half said they had been sexually harassed, and nearly one quarter said they'd been sexually assaulted.
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