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...February, University President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new financial aid plan that frees families with incomes under $40,000 from having to contribute to their child’s tuition, and which also lessens the financial burden on families with incomes between...
...company's pension burden weighs on profitability, though Congress recently allowed American to defer some payments to underfunded pensions for two years. This year management has put $319 million away for pensions and will spend an additional $300 million on retirees' medical benefits--an expense its younger competitors don't have. These low-cost carriers "pay people a lot less, and they don't provide good benefits," says Arpey. "I do believe people in big public companies should retire with benefits, but we've got to find...
...from the others significantly: no judge has authorized the other marriages, and in the four other states, authorities have intervened--in most cases swiftly--to stop the ceremonies. But in Oregon, a unique ruling upheld by the state supreme court in 1999 says government officials must meet an extraordinary burden to treat gays and straights differently--the same high burden required to justify disparate treatment of blacks and whites, or men and women...
DIED. JOHN MAYNARD SMITH, 84, evolutionary biologist who revolutionized the study of animal behavior by applying game theory to the study of evolution; in Sussex, England. He answered such questions as why parents sometimes stick around to raise their children but other times leave the burden to a mate...
...normalcy" that would be difficult to sell in the U.S. It requires unremitting toughness and constant wariness. It is almost as tedious to pass through security at a shopping mall or a restaurant in Israel as it is to board a plane in America. There is also the moral burden of the casual brutalities that are an inevitable part of the West Bank occupation--and the social burden of being perceived as a rogue state by much of the world...