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Students said that while requirement-heavy concentrations are making it easier to get course credit for study abroad, leaving for a semester is disruptive to both academics and extracurricular activities...
...small but growing number of colleges are setting up on-campus recovery programs, and a few even have housing specifically for former substance abusers. Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., introduced the first recovery dorm in 1988. Last year an alumni reunion drew about 100 former residents, who credit the housing program with enabling them to succeed in school and thrive after graduation...
...leave an electronic trail every time you use a credit card, rent a DVD, open a bank account or surf the Internet. That's a lot of personal information that could all too easily fall into the wrong hands. Last year 10 million Americans were victims of identity theft. In Prying Eyes, author Eric J. Gertler, former CEO of Privista, a software company that focuses on credit management and identity-theft protection, offers practical ways to maximize your privacy. Illustrated with real-life tales of ID theft, Gertler's book explains the preventive steps that could have been taken. Some...
SENTENCED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, former investment banker to high-flying Silicon Valley companies during the Internet boom; to 18 months in prison; in New York City. He is appealing a May conviction for hindering a federal stock investigation involving Credit Suisse First Boston, but will be forced to begin serving prison time in late October while the appeal is pending...
...institute in Dresden--and others like it dotted around Germany--is starting to do things differently. Traditionally, German research universities are rigidly hierarchical. The head of the laboratory gets all the resources and, if there's a breakthrough, all the credit. The Dresden Max Planck Institute takes a more laissez-faire--in fact, a more American--approach. Its faculties are modeled after U.S. universities in which postdoctorate researchers have better access to funding, doing away with the top-down approach. The Dresden institute is also aggressively trying to attract researchers from outside Germany. "We are adapting the U.S. system...