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...environment [Sept.24]. Yet even with an awareness of the crisis, I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit. This may necessitate enormous changes within our society. Claudia Schaer, CALGARY, ALTA., CANADA...
...Pell Grants by up to $1,100 per year and gradually cutting the interest rates of federally subsidized loans from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. The Pell Grant, a form of financial aid given to more than 5 million low-income students each year, will be capped at a maximum of $5,400 per year by 2012 under the new law. Sally C. Donahue, director of financial aid, called the new legislation, which has been compared to the 1944 G.I. Bill, “an investment in this country’s education, in this country’s future...
...delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit...
...limit their options. While prospective 2+2 students will indeed apply to business school well before their peers, it is hardly a stifling program. Although HBS must approve students’ jobs for the two years before their matriculation, the intent of the program is to allow students maximum flexibility, and students will not be limited to HBS’ 100 partner companies. Nor will the program be large enough to force everyone to “apply early,” as it will comprise no more than 10 percent of the incoming class and will specifically not seek...
...others sometimes inflected the same sentence for maximum disdain: "The President of the United States has the time to write ... you?" Whether this is meant as a criticism of the President or as a criticism of me, I'm never able to tell. Both, I suspect...