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...Between airfare and lodging, a lot of these programs cost up to $5000,” said Kalamchi. “For an undergraduate, that’s a huge financial barrier...
...also found also an organizational barrier,” Kalamchi said. “There were a lot of organizations out there, each with its own coordinators and materials. Out of this came an idea to create one organization to alleviate these two problems...
...performing school districts often can’t afford to sacrifice two days’ worth of wages and that compulsory presence at parenting school smacks of a remedial program targeted toward low-income parents for no other palpable reason than their low income. In place of this coercive barrier to entry, reasonable positive incentives would allow parents in under-performing school districts to attend such sessions without punishing them—signaling the Commonwealth’s commitment to providing for its poorest children without holding parents at fault for their less-than-optimal circumstances...
...party in a recent election for the state assembly, and he says he plans to field candidates of his own in future elections. Emulating his heroes-American tycoon-turned-politician Ross Perot and Italian media magnate-turned-Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi-Mallya is pushing hard to break down the barrier traditionally separating business from politics in his country. "This is the first time a major businessman has officially entered politics in India," says P.S. Jayaramu, a professor of political science at Bangalore University. For many, Mallya could be the welcome harbinger of a new kind of reformer ready to storm...
...travel diary, in the form of a group e-mail, that your vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize that whatever the postcard's failings, it at least had the merit of brevity...