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...might. The Independent Activities Period (IAP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s equivalent of the J-Term, is provided as an optional academic opportunity and a mandatory tuition cost covered by financial aid. With Harvard students’ tuition bills already among the highest in the country, an extra term like the IAP would drive costs even higher...
Inside Business See the pages following the Arts section for extra coverage of news and trends in the world of commerce...
...students in the school's first entering class are still there. "SEED looks like a very innovative model, but it is too early to tell," says Nina Rees, a U.S. Department of Education official who studies charter schools. And SEED is expensive. Because of the extra cost of housing students, SEED spends about $24,000 per student, more than double the allotment for the typical D.C. public school...
...justify cutting taxes when you're already running a huge deficit and you're adding new spending like an extra $400 billion on Medicare? For a quarter-century, tax-cut junkies have had two answers to that. One is supply-side economics: There is no need to cut spending. Tax cuts can be so liberating they will actually pay for themselves, and then some, by inspiring new economic activity...
Studies show that ephedra can promote modest short-term weight loss (an extra pound per month), apparently by somewhat suppressing appetite and boosting metabolism. In combination with caffeine, it may also jolt the muscles enough to enhance athletic performance for brief spurts...