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Bush has no hope but to heal himself. As the price of oil floated downward, as Iraq's Anbar province, formerly a charnel house, returned to local control, as another September arrived with no cities flooded or towers destroyed, his vital signs improved slightly. Too little and too late for this political cycle, but beyond that lie the low hills of Texas, out of the storms, and a quiet wait for history's verdict...
...boasting only of U.S. successes. When asked why, the Air Force said in an official statement that there is a "need to review the way information is collected." But the sad reality is that so long as the war persists, Afghan civilians will be the ones paying the heaviest price...
...According to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, U.S. textbook prices rose 186% between 1986 and 2004, or twice the rate of inflation. College students now spend roughly $900 on textbooks every academic year, books they are required by their professors to purchase. This disconnect between the buyer and the seller allows publishing companies to artificially inflate their prices. "Publishing companies generally don't disclose prices to faculty," says Luke Swarthout, a higher education advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "The person buying the books isn't the person paying for them - it's what we call...
...International textbooks are printed - frequently in India, although sometimes in other Asian nations - under copyright agreements with Western publishers that allow the books to be sold for a discounted price. "The reasoning is that people in other countries can't afford the higher prices," said Swarthout, "so this is a way to provide them with the same quality of education as we get in America." But just as the Internet has enabled illegal access to music and movies, so too has it opened the international book market - especially to the hands of college students. International textbooks are available on major...
...With luck, students won't have to outsource their educational needs for much longer. This summer, Congress hashed out a new law that would require textbook publishers to provide pricing information to professors, to help them decide which books to select for their courses. There are also e-books - digital texts available on the Internet either for free or a small price - not to mention book rental services and good old-fashioned hand-me-downs...