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Universities across the U.S. are reporting a sharp increase in requests for financial aid. At Arizona State, students qualifying for need-based loans are up 30% over the past two years. "There is a lot of uncertainty due to the loss of value in families' assets," says Jim Molloy, associate director of financial aid at Notre Dame, where spending on need-based financial aid is up 10%. Mark Evans, director of financial aid at Kent State, reports that requests for additional aid because of "special circumstances" have risen...
...plans, whose earnings are exempt from federal and some state tax, came into wide acceptance about three years ago, just as the market was peaking. They now have $11 billion in assets, much of it stuffed into aggressive-growth portfolios--the ones that have fallen hardest. For one Arizona Family College Savings 529 plan, nearly a quarter of the assets are in funds that have fallen 30% to 60% since its inception...
...perverse incentives that come with it that pose the biggest concern. Because most corporations do not deduct the cost of options from their bottom line, CEOs have no reason not to stuff their pockets with options. So far, Bush has declined to address this crucial accounting issue, and Arizona Senator John McCain's attempts to push it were blocked last week. But in an encouraging development, West Coast real estate firm AMB Property just became one of the few U.S. companies (along with Boeing and Winn-Dixie Stores) to deduct the expense...
...year 2007. A research facility somewhere in Arizona...
There are as many reasons to try vegetarianism as there are soft-eyed cows and soft-hearted kids. To impressionable young minds, vegetarianism can sound sensible, ethical and--as nearly 25% of adolescents polled by Teenage Research Unlimited said--"cool." College students think so too. A study conducted by Arizona State University psychology professors Richard Stein and Carol Nemeroff reported that, sight unseen, salad eaters were rated more moral, virtuous and considerate than steak eaters. "A century ago, a high-meat diet was thought to be health-favorable," says Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania. "Kids today...