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...Gist: When Sam MacDonald graduated from Yale in 1995, he didn't go chasing after his dreams. He went chasing after booze. And drugs. And food. By 2000, he weighed nearly 340 pounds and owed thousands of dollars in taxes, student loans and credit-card debt. Cue the "Urban Hermit Plan" - a wildly dangerous scheme to subsist on little else but lentils and canned tuna. MacDonald's memoir recounts the unexpected journey he took, morphing from "Fat Bastard" to "Urban Hermit," taking his readers from Baltimore to Bosnia and back again in a tale of "starvation, hard work and blind...
...enterprise really does lie in spare change. Ordinary Chinese donate by patronizing one of many businesses that Li has signed up - by dining at the South Beauty restaurant chain, for example (one renminbi off the bill goes to the foundation), or by using their China Merchants Bank credit cards. They can also donate at post offices, through PayPal or via SMS. By these means, the foundation had raised, as of July this year, $13.7 million, the great bulk of which has gone to Sichuan earthquake relief...
...coursework studies at other universities. The Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship prohibits such academic endeavors and activities spent in the practice or furtherance of a professional career,” according to the fellowship’s Web site. “We run the gamut from direct coursework for credit to experiences that are based on internships, but what is really important are addressing those three principles,” Lue said. He added that the total number of grants to be awarded had not yet been established, and that the CEA was “more focused on announcing...
...last year). That's on par with Harvard, where tuition accounts for about 20% of the school's revenue - but there, a multibillion-dollar endowment makes up the difference. On average, tuition covers about half of total educational costs at public universities. (Read about colleges getting hit by the credit crunch...
...other states. Unlike marriage licenses, which are administrative in nature and subject to less powerful constitutional protection from state to state, an adoption takes effect by an explicit ruling by a judge. Adoption rulings are, therefore, the kinds of decisions that the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause was designed to protect across state borders...