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...still incomplete, it has returned not a lick of real science and is projected to cost up to $100 billion. The shuttles, which were advertised as a cheap, fast, reliable way to get to and from near-Earth orbit, cost $400 million every time they fly, take months to prep for a mission and have a devastatingly poor safety record, as two lost ships and 14 lost lives attest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Budget Blunder | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...coaches and teammates are not the only ones who’ve helped him pull off these impressive numbers. Among the people not on the team that have helped Bode’s wrestling is, well, a rugby player.Chid Iloabachie, a junior from Eliot, first met Ogunwole during the Prep Nationals—a wrestling tournament for high school students—and when Chid saw him in Matthews in their freshman year, the conversation naturally turned to wrestling.“We were talking about wrestling and, he was like, come and wrestle sometime,” Iloabachie said...

Author: By Tony D. Qian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Strong as 15 Bulls,’ Ogunwole Gets Help from Buddies | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...decided to put this off because logistically they were unable to handle a change of this significance,” said Matthew S. Fidler, a GRE programming manager at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a test preparation company. “The new test will be an hour and a half longer, there will be different question types and content areas, and the test will be more expensive to take...

Author: By Dina Guzovsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF: Changes To Graduate School Examinations, Planned for October 2006, Are Moved Back to October 2007 | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like “Crack the SAT.” All Overqualified employees have Harvard degrees, which Maats says grants them “instant credibility.” For a mere $75 an hour...

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tutoring and Test Prep, With Just a Dash of Condescension | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Chad Troutwine, co-founder of the consulting company Veritas Prep, said he supports changes in the admissions process because his company teaches students how best to market themselves, he said...

Author: By Joyce Y. Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Mulls Criteria for Admits | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

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