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...April 26 news article "Panel Discusses ROTC Challenges" incorrectly implied that Harvard punishes students in ROTC by revoking financial aid offers for students taking ROTC scholarships, based on statements from a panelist at the event. In fact, Harvard treats ROTC scholarship money as it does other outside scholarship funds when evaluating financial aid levels, and accepting a ROTC scholarship does not change the overall level of aid received by the student...
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a long–lasting nerve block that could aid in the treatment of pain for patients undergoing surgery or experiencing chronic pain...
...Rothman, the Columbia professor, says that Stossel is the master of the “straw man” argument, constructing the rationale for conflict of interest regulations to aid his position...
...Colleges around the country are fielding more appeals for additional aid than usual. At North Carolina's Davidson College, the number of appeals had jumped sixfold by March - before the school had even sent students award letters detailing their financial-aid packages - compared with the same period last year. At Iowa's Grinnell College, appeals for more funds have jumped as much as 50% compared to last spring, and the aid office at the University of Texas at Austin estimates that half the phone calls it receives these days are requests for an aid bump. Earlier this month, the Department...
...many college hopefuls this year, getting in was the easy part. Now comes the real challenge: figuring out where they can afford to go. With enrollment deadlines looming in May, economic uncertainty makes that calculus harder than ever, particularly if a financial-aid package based on a family's circumstances during application time in January now looks woefully inadequate in the wake of a salary cut or layoff. The silver lining? The odds of getting extra aid are good - if you know how to ask for it. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...