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Use windfall to pay down steep student loans (Austin American-Statesman)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:22:06 GMT
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Use windfall to pay down steep student loans
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Colleges hand out emergency cash to more students (Minnesota Public Radio)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:04:37 GMT
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Paying for college isn't easy, and one unexpected bill like a car repair could be enough to force a student to drop out. Most Minnesota colleges have a little-known pool of money set aside to help students facing financial hardships to stay in school.
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Students advised on practical economics (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:01:00 GMT
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A lot of instruction about real life won’t fit in the typical high school curriculum — and educators at the Wichita Falls Independent School District know it.Lessons on how to purchase a car, lease an apartment, choose a military career or buy insurance don’t fit neatly into classes on math, physics, English and history.But they’re a perfect fit for the Senior Send-off, a day devoted to the ...
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Across the USA News from every state (USA Today)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:24:48 GMT
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News from every state
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Local legislators introduce 100 proposed laws (Ventura County Star)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:41:00 GMT
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SACRAMENTO — With the spring bill season about to bloom under the state Capitol dome, the seven lawmakers who represent portions of Ventura County have collectively introduced an even 100 proposed laws that must undergo hearings, scrutiny and preliminary votes by early June.Committee hearings on the 1,300-plus bills introduced this year will begin later this month.Some of the offerings of local ...
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NZ’s Top University Debaters Go Head to Head (Scoop.co.nz)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:19:29 GMT
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The New Zealand Business Roundtable is hosting the Big Social Issues Debates , a national university debating tournament beginning in secondary schools on March 15 and finishing with a grand final to be hosted by Minister for Social Development Hon Paula Bennett on 24 March at the Academy Galleries in Wellington starting at 5.30pm.
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Trio with pistols rob store in Waikato (3news)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:56:14 GMT
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A trio of youths in bandanas, brandishing pistols and an iron bar, robbed a superette in Huntly last night.
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Reader Mailbag: The Nascent Musician (The Christian Science Monitor)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:51:22 GMT
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My two year old daughter is showing a tremendous nascent interest in making music. She sings constantly . She uses her hands as percussion all the time on her knees, on the table, and anywhere else she can use them. She climbs up to our keyboard and attempts to play songs.
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Letters to the editor for March 8, 2010 (The Union Democrat)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:17:24 GMT
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To the editor: To anti-Wal-Mart activists: In response to The Union Democrat’s Feb. 9 front-page story, in which activists demonize Wal-Mart’s planned grocery section expansion, and to your three follow-up letters to the editor, I respectfully suggest and request this: Cease your hostility to us Sonorans.
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In Defense of Education (Good Times)
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:49:23 GMT
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Participants in the March 4 UCSC protests share their stories “I am a language teacher!” UC Santa Cruz Italian lecturer Giulia Centineo screamed into the loudspeaker during a March 4 protest at UC Santa Cruz. Centineo held the microphone up to her lips and addressed the crowd, her hand trembling, perhaps out of nervousness or simply passion. “For years the administration has been shoving down ...
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