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...substantial debt in order to send me here, and they meet the tuition payments only as a result of careful planning and foresight. In the current discussions over economic diversity, however, my family would be lumped along with families to which forty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket or a typical deposit into a bank account. The family experiences that people from backgrounds similar to mine bring to Harvard are valuable and worthy, but are also extremely hard to quantify or nail down. All too often in the office of financial aid, students are defined down...
...hours later, Li delivered the girl she had intended to name Shuang (Bright). The baby was dead. To be absolutely sure, says Li, the officials--from the Linyi region, where she lives, in China's eastern Shandong province--dunked the infant's body for several minutes in a bucket of water beside the bed. All she could think about on that day last spring, recalls Li, was how she would hire a gang of thugs to take revenge on the people who killed her baby because the birth, they said, would have violated China's family-planning scheme...
...SALVATION ARMY 800-SAL-ARMY www.salvationarmyusa.org The Salvation Army is providing services to storm victims and first responders. A $100 donation will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit with broom, mop, bucket and cleaning supplies...
...trouble. Across the region, drought, agricultural diversions and overgrazing have done measurable damage, and there are examples in Snake Valley. "We're worried about southern Nevada because we know what we're doing to ourselves," says rancher Dean Baker. "And that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what they're talking about...
Another assessment tool being developed is the driving simulator. An interactive simulator created by Northeastern University engineering professor Ron Mourant is currently being used at the University of Virginia's Driving Safety Laboratory. Equipped with a bucket seat and real car controls, the simulator offers drivers a virtual-reality road test. Some experts are worried that seniors' unfamiliarity with the high-tech setting may affect results, but others argue that simulators can project dangerous scenarios that would be unsafe on the road. Mourant views the simulator as a tool of persuasion: to help older drivers see their weaknesses and voluntarily...