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...strategy, officers note. Trying to start a bidding war is generally a losing proposition in part because every school's resources and aid calculations are different. Colleges will rarely match an offer outright. That doesn't mean applicants shouldn't bring up other schools' awards, however, because the comparison may turn up extra data that one school had not taken into consideration. "If the generous award is because the family provided additional information to the [other school's] financial-aid office that allowed a more appropriate need-based award to be made, we'll want that information as well," says...
...what the recession has done to the media, old and new. With the exception of Google (GOOG), the life has gone out of the business of making big profits in the content business. Since Google is only a content aggregator, it does not qualify for the sake of comparison...
There's a lot of comparison with the human species. They are the dominant species on the ocean, just like we are the dominant species on land. They also occupy the entire ocean - 71 percent of the planet, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, which is unusual for a marine mammal. It's a very sophisticated species. But they are called killer whales because they do kill whales...
...Florida State University skull-morphology specialist Dean Falk and an international team of researchers compared Flo's skull not only to skulls of other prehuman species, but also to those of modern humans, some with normal development and others with microcephaly, an abnormal smallness of the head. That last comparison was critical, since some researchers have suggested that H. floresiensis represents not a separate species but is instead a modern human stricken with microcephaly or similar illnesses. But the "sick hobbit" hypothesis has been unable to gain much traction...
...More on 10 Ideas Re the new calvinism, one of TIME's 10 world-changing ideas [March 23]: Your approach is a bit U.S.-centric. While Calvinism is certainly gaining influence in the States, that influence pales in comparison with the global sway of charismatic Pentecostalism, which is transforming the religious landscape of the developing world. Sadly, no Christian movement, Calvinist or otherwise, currently has that kind of impact in American society. Richard Land, Nashville