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Still, serving lattes for minimum wage plus tips is a painful prospect to the average college student, who graduates with $21,000 in the red. Tuition costs could also explain why graduate schools, traditionally a refuge in tough economic times, have seen uneven application numbers this year. Lance Choy, director of the career development center at Stanford, notes that grad schools were a popular backup a few years ago during the dotcom bust, but applications are flat this year. "Who needs more debt when the job market is looking rather grim?" he says. (Read "Finding a Dream Job: A Little...
...growing demand for sports statistical analysis ensures that they can use the their abilities with numbers to explain the games they love.“It was liberating that I had accumulated skills that I could use in the sports world,” Swanay says. “Plus, I was much more passionate about sports than I was about insurance.”—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...then came the snow. As 2,000-plus young activists - according to the organizers - gathered in the Spirit of Justice Park near the Capitol, bystanders were greeted with the surreal sight of a global-warming protest occurring in the middle of a freak March snowstorm. They chanted slogans like "Who is hot in here / There's too much carbon in the air" while huddling against the windchill. The greatest risk to the protesters wasn't aggressive cops - the D.C. police, just as chilled as the activists, had little interest in confrontation - but frostbite from the hours of marching and standing...
Roadside Repairs. For easy fixes while traveling - like tears in suitcases - duct tape can be a lifesaver. 3M now has Performance Plus Duct Tape ($14 per roll), which was designed for use in nuclear power plants; it withstands temperatures of up to 200 degrees F and peels off without leaving any residue...
...major split is over how much Europe's richer western countries should do to help their poorer eastern neighbors. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has appealed for $230 billion in aid for eastern member states who have been hardest hit by the economic crisis, plus streamlined access to the Eurozone, or the 16 countries who use Europe's common currency. Without help, he says, there is likely to be a new economic "Iron Curtain" across Europe. (See pictures of the changes in Europe...