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...even as it clings - for better and for worse - to the past, the Masters has a gift for reinventing itself and embracing technological innovation. The tournament uses manual, not electronic, scoreboards, while simultaneously running a website offering up-to-the-second updates. Sandwiches at the venue cost no more than $2.50, even as tickets swap hands for hundreds outside the gates. Spectators are kicked off the property if caught using a cell phone, even though buried under the course's fairways are thousands of feet of high-definition television cable, irrigation pipes wired to an on-site weather radar...
...other groups’ concerns, “We’re the ladies of the night conservation organization—people agree with us, they just don’t want to seen with us.” More important to him is the claim that his protest cost the Japanese whaling program $70 million, and caused it to kill half as many whales as it would have otherwise...
...addition to committing five post-graduation years to public interest work, the program requires that students spend their two summers working in the public sector (see correction). While such a stipulation clearly is intended to demonstrate a student’s commitment to the field, it comes at a cost: the pedagogical value of exploring other fields of law, from corporate litigation to criminal practice. The aims of the program, however, are certainly noble, and Harvard seems to be unique in providing such compensation to all interested students. (Similar programs at other schools selectively choose students to win comparable tuition...
...According to the medical school, the change will benefit a third of currently enrolled students. While eligible individuals will still be on the hook for $24,500 of the school’s tuition in the form of loans, the initiative represents an admirable step toward ensuring that cost need not dissuade talented students from pursuing careers in medicine, regardless of those students’ means or background. The decision to expand aid was largely motivated by hopes that reducing indebtedness might lessen the burden on recent graduates to select “more lucrative specialties?...
...military service. Other family-friendly measures include letting family members tap into their soldier's unused GI Education Bill benefits, giving military spouses hiring preferences for Federal jobs, and improving military daycare. "Not only are we expanding the availability of child care," Geren said, "but we're reducing the cost and looking at ways to deliver it both on post and off-post." Nowadays, it seems, Pentagon recruiters have a new adage. "You enlist an individual," they like to say, "but you re-enlist the family...