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While reviewing your auto insurance, look at your homeowner's policy too. With housing values going up, you may need to increase your coverage. If your net worth has risen, you should consider raising the limit on your umbrella policy. For home or auto, the best way to shop for insurance is to look at your current policy and make sure it's right--then get quotes on identical coverage from three insurers. Now that you're part of the safe-driving crowd, there's no reason to get careless with your money...
Twenty years ago federal scholarship aid, including Pell grants, represented nearly twenty percent of the College's scholarship budget. Today federal scholarship aid accounts for less than six percent of the College's scholarship program. In other words, as the needs of Harvard's scholarship students have risen, the College, not the federal government, has borne the full cost of meeting those increased needs...
Twenty years ago federal scholarship aid, including Pell grants, represented nearly twenty percent of the College's scholarship budget. Today federal scholarship aid accounts for less than six percent of the College's scholarship program. In other words, as the needs of Harvard's scholarship students have risen, the College, not the federal government, has borne the full cost of meeting those increased needs...
This turnabout points up a broad trend in the market. Dare I say it? New-economy firms are out of favor. Since March 31, the smokestack-vintage Dow Jones industrial average has risen 1,000 points, while the tech-laden nasdaq has gone flatter than steel slab. In that period aluminum maker Alcoa rose a shiny 55% and joined heavy industrials such as 3M and Phelps-Dodge in posting heady gains. Tech wonders, including Cisco, Microsoft and Intel, floundered...
According to Held, the number of applications to the nation's 78 all-women's undergraduate institutions has drastically risen...