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...first, the challenge is spotting the buggers. NASA needs to reshuffle its cash to fund the larger project, or Congress??which two years ago asked NASA to come up with a comprehensive search-and-destroy plan—needs to boost the space agency’s budget accordingly. And NEO-spotting is still a long-term project. We can catalog all the dangerous asteroids in the next few decades, but comets are more troublesome, since they come shooting from the dark reaches of the outer solar system. We’d have substantially less warning?...
...crop of eager freshmen, short-lived enthusiasm for classes, and the renewed antics of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). SLAM’s unceasing demand for more—higher wages, more vacation time, and, above all, stronger unions—may resonate with the new Democratic Congress?? agenda, but unions, like any other cartel, help their members only at the cost of the general public...
Your editorial titled “Less Scroogerly College Loans” (Jan. 22), gives the impression that Congress passed a law lowering the interest rate for student loans. Rather, the action was taken by the House of Representatives only. Therefore, the sub-headline “We applaud Congress?? decision to cut interest rates on federal student loans” is misleading. The editorial does not clear up the distinction. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (Section: Government & Politics, Volume 53, Issue 21, Page A24), the Senate may take up the matter in February. Until...
...Harvard heavyweights and former treasury secretaries told Congress??s Joint Economic Committee yesterday that the new Democratic majority must take a stand in favor of free trade. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers and current Harvard Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60, both Democrats who served in President Clinton’s cabinet, spoke to the committee at its first meeting under the new Congress. They delved into a range of economic issues, including income inequality and middle class discontent. Though both are members of the same party as the committee’s majority...
...more students have been funded by larger scholarships from the University. “Fortunately Harvard students have been borrowing less and less for the past decade due to increasing scholarships,” said Donahue. The current interest rate on student loans was raised to 6.8 percent by Congress??s Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. That measure passed in the Republican-controlled House by a margin of 216 to 214 in a narrow partisan vote last February. This year’s initiative to cut the current rate was overwhelmingly supported by the House...