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...Add up these steps, and the Obama Administration appears to be attacking the staggering cost of higher ed from the back end - that is, if we can't fix how much college costs, at least we can try to fix how you pay that cost back. "There's clearly a lot of work to do in bringing down the cost of college," says Edie Irons, spokesperson for the Project on Student Debt. "But even if you froze college tuition at every institution tomorrow, you'd still have this problem where people are borrowing incredible amounts of money to take important...
...Presented with an opportunity this week to claim that foothold, however, most major oil companies were unwilling to commit. The need for military style security and expansive insurance in light of ongoing terror attacks would require foreign investors to add millions to the cost of operating in Iraq. Massive capital investment is required to develop the industry's capacity in Iraq, and militant trade unions that have flexed their muscles through strikes in recent years - and which bitterly oppose foreign oil companies taking charge of developing Iraq's fields - add to the headache facing potential investors...
...government hopes the expansion plan - which will add another 30 attractions and three new themed areas - will answer critics' complaints of overcrowding and boring rides. "Expanding Disneyland, or doing any other operational activity to increase what it currently offers, will be very important in keeping potential visitors attracted to the park and not losing appeal to competing attractions elsewhere," says Parita Chitakasem, a research manager with research group Euromonitor International. (See 10 things to do in Hong Kong...
...attract. The experiment inspired the launch last summer of GenePartner.com a Swiss company that uses genetics to predict whether two people will have butterflies-in-the-stomach chemistry. Already, partnerships are in the works with both traditional matchmakers and new online-dating sites, including Sense2Love.com which plans to add genetic matching by the end of the summer...
...through wasteful behavior like leaving lights on or idling cars. We're on course to increase electricity usage an extra 30% by 2030, which could require trillions of dollars' worth of new emissions-belching power plants, so it would be much better to eliminate the usage that doesn't add to our quality of life...