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...food-stamp issue also turns on simple accounting. Soldiers who live off base receive extra compensation to help defray their housing costs. But the Department of Agriculture, which runs the food-stamp program, counts that off-base allowance as income. Troops who live on a military installation and thus don't get that housing allowance are several thousand dollars a year poorer on paper than their compatriots who live off base. It's little wonder then that 60% of the troops who are eligible for food stamps live in military housing, though only a third of the force lives...
...invest extraordinary time in test prep courses simply because "everybody else is doing it." This competitive impulse contradicts the experience of most students I know, who have various backgrounds and legitimate needs to raise their scores--whether they are smart Harvard overachievers or not. Test prep does not merely defray anxiety for anxious over-achievers, as suggested, but often aptly levels the playing field for students who benefit, without emptying their wallets or hindering personal strategies...
Increasingly, students at Harvard are turning to commercial courses to prepare. Companies like Kaplan and Princeton Review as well as lesser-known competitors offer classes, libraries of old exams and personalized criticism to help defray anxiety--and boost scores...
...laundry lists of benefits, ranging from health club memberships to vacation shares in the Caribbean. And now, thanks to some clever capitalist thinking, even prospective employees' pets can profit from the competition; according to Associated Press reports, a growing number of companies are offering pet health plans to help defray, for example, the expense of a beloved parakeet's ankle surgery...
Redmond said that she expects publishing costs to run anywhere between $15,000 and $20,000 and said she and other guide organizers are also working to secure advertisers to defray expenses...