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Rethinking the Senior Fund (Columbia Daily Spectator)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:03:09 GMT
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Three months ago the Columbia University administration conceded over $60 million to appease a fringe, ad hoc group of student radicals engaged in a protracted “Gatorade” hunger-strike. An “anti-strike” movement emerged, but it proved little more than a quixotic struggle.
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New $2,500 tax credit available to college students (Colorado Daily)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:19:28 GMT
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University of Colorado student Jay Lynch browses books at the CU Book Store last week. A new tax credit lets college students write off qualifying textbook purchases on their income taxes.
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No place like home - The generation who can't afford to buy (Independent)
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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:19:15 GMT
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My parents bought the house I grew up in at the end of summer 1980, three months before I was born. It was a semi-detached in a Surrey village, with three bedrooms and a big garden, and it cost them just £32,000. Half of the rooms were a converted former Wesleyan chapel; Mum remembers that when she saw the original ecclesiastical windows she had one of those TV property-show moments – this, of ...
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Bob Samuels: College Students are Using Credit Cards for Tuition (The Huffington Post)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:17:37 GMT
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Adding insult to injury, a transfer of wealth and opportunity is being made from lower- and middle-class families to upper-class families through merit-based financial aid.
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Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered (New York Times)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:43:12 GMT
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House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.
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How to Quit Assisting and Be a Photographer: Mathew Scott (PDNonline)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:57:26 GMT
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Portrait photographer Mathew Scott of Los Angeles began assisting while attending the San Francisco Academy of Art, and continued assisting various photographers “off and on” for two years afterwards. In 2009, he quit assisting to shoot for clients of his own.
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Students Cook Ramen Noodles for Haitian Relief (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:08:33 GMT
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Members of Beta Alpha Psi and the International Student's Organization at Marshall University hosted a ramen noodle cookoff to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.
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Amgen - A Profitable Biotech at a Bargain Price (Guru Focus)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:27:30 GMT
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By Dr. Paul Price. Amgen Inc. (AMGN - $56.90) is the world's largest independent biotechnology medicines company. They discover, develop, manufactures and market medicines for serious illnesses. Their focus is on human therapeutics and AMGN concentrates on medicines based on advances in cellular and molecular biology. 2009 R&D investment was about $2.9 billion or 20% of total sales. Read more » »
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‘An integral part of the community’ (The Wahpeton Daily News)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:18:49 GMT
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Growing up on a farm near Grand Rapids, N.D., Don Holen was interested in farming and agriculture from an early age. He was born in 1932 and showed an early inclination for community involvement and leadership.
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COLUMN: And the winner is … not us, unless Congress acts! (The Walton Sun)
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:21:46 GMT
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There is not a category at the Academy Awards for unappreciated movies. If there were such an honor, Jim Carrey’s The Truman Show, set in pre-Watercolor Seaside, would certainly be on list of nominees. You cannot find Carrey’s latest project on...
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