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...NAICU is trying to provide a more complete picture than U.S News, and the new format doesn't gloss over unpleasant details. For example, it will list a school's current tuition alongside the sticker price from each of the previous four years (Parents, get ready to watch those bar charts keep climbing upwards over time!). It will also include the percentage of students who receive financial aid as well as what the average net tuition is for financial aid recipients...
...certainly fun while it lasted. Terry Semel's six-year ride atop Yahoo! juiced up the company's annual revenue nine-fold and added $30 billion to its net worth. As Yahoo rose under his watch, AOL sank. But when you compete against the godzilla that is Google, even modest slip-ups can cost you a job. A sliding stock doesn't sit well, and second place in the Web world isn't good enough...
...miles per gallon, and light trucks (including SUVs, the only automobile category American companies still dominate) until 2025 to reach 30 miles per gallon. "They're trying to knock a decent standard off the road and replace it with a clunker," said Frank O'Donnell, head of Clear Air Watch. "We've heard crying wolf for three and a half decades from Detroit...
...support the overall legislation, said Anna Aurillo, legislative director for PIRG. Friends of the Earth, meanwhile, tried to dump a ton of coal in a Senate park last week, but when the Capitol Police prevented them, they blackened their faces and hands in protest instead. Greenpeace, LCV, Clean Air Watch and dozens of other environmental groups all have letter and e-mail campaigns in addition to the direct lobbying the groups do on the Hill...
Many men will freely admit that they sometimes lie to employers about their commitments. "I announced that I was going to a meeting," shrugged a Washington journalist as he left the office in midafternoon one day recently. "I just neglected to mention that the 'meeting' was to watch my daughter play tennis." Now it is the fathers who are beginning to ask themselves whether their careers will stall and their incomes stagnate, whether the glass ceiling will press down on them once they make public their commitment as parents, whether today's productivity pressures will force them to work even...