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...site would have a lot to keep them busy. NASA is exploring 180 areas of scientific research and other projects for its moon crews, from the lofty (solar physics) to the frankly commercial (installing lunar robots that could be driven remotely from Earth by paying customers to help defray costs...
Course materials are getting more expensive. Over the last two decades, a Government Accountability Office study found that textbook prices have risen at double the rate of inflation. The situation is so out-of-control that Senator Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation to help defray some of the $898 a year on average that students shell out for textbooks...
Professors can also help defray the rising costs of textbooks. Professors help keep textbook prices high by requiring students to carry the most recent editions and by changing textbooks wholesale when taking over a course. New editions and new textbooks destroy the used textbook market, even though new editions often do little more than change page numbers to render previous editions obsolete. Professors must make their courses compatible with the current and previous editions of textbooks to save students money, even for courses that draw their problem sets from the texts. And new professors must weigh carefully the benefits...
...done deal. After learning of the rapper’s impending show, the Boston Police Department (BPD) abruptly demanded additional security. And after the UC made it clear that the added officers would make the concert unaffordable, the College did not offer the council any assistance to help defray concert costs. These obstacles should not be ignored...
This is because club sports are not funded by Harvard’s Athletic Department. Normally, to defray travel costs, such teams apply for funding from outside sources...