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...final seconds of regulation ticked away, the Crimson looked to be in the driver's seat with a 5-4 lead. With the Crimson forward Rob Parsons in the box and the Pioneers goalie pulled for the extra attacker, however, Sacred Heart tied the game with seconds left on the clock to send the game to overtime...
After the focus group complained that they had to wait in the main servery area even if they only wanted salad, HUDS has decided to make silverware and dishes available at the salad bar by transferring an extra silverware and tray holder from Annenberg to the Quincy dining hall...
Many microcredit schemes encourage clients to set aside some of the extra income generated by the loan as savings. This can be used for medical bills or to pay school fees if the parents get sick. "Without the loans I would have had to look for another way to make money," says Florence Muriungi, 40, who sings in a Kampala jazz band and whose husband died of AIDS four years ago. Muriungi, who cares for eight children--five of her own and three her sister left when she too died of AIDS--uses the money to pay school fees...
...good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from now the visual resolution of handheld text devices...
...universities are usually quick to match one another's recruiting inducements. But when Princeton recently announced it would replace loans with outright grants in the financial-aid packages it offers to undergraduates, its competitors fell silent. Why? Princeton's new aid plan will cost the university at least an extra $5 million a year. Princeton can afford that cost, thanks to investment returns on its $8 billion endowment. And its move is sure to spur more criticism of other Ivys that have even larger endowments (Harvard: $19 billion; Yale: $10 billion) but have been reluctant to use them for more...