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National Free Applications for Federal Student Aid are at three million for the 2009-2010 school year, an increase of 20 percent over the same processing period last year, according to a release by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators on Friday. The government’s direct student loan program is also up by $7 billion this academic year, according to NAFSAA. The increase in applications for financial aid at Harvard maps with the national increase in FAFSA applications. This year, the number of financial aid applicants increased from 73 to 78 percent of the undergraduate population...
...that need to be taken. Chief among those is the need to restore confidence in the financial system and the demand for foreign trade. Most stimulus packages are designed to meet these two needs. More difficult to swallow might be the recommendation to up the "quantity and quality" of direct aid to developing countries, an area of the budget many countries are already slashing. The report makes it clear that developing countries are desperately in need this assistance during the recession to meet basic needs, but that's the problem - as the recession deepens, everyone else needs a hand...
...Burchell's study wasn't designed to offer direct explanations of the data, but there are established psychological patterns that may suggest them. For example, psychologists have documented an "impact bias in affective forecasting," which is the tendency for people to overestimate how strongly they will react to emotional events. One study showed that university professors greatly overestimate the jubilation or depression they would feel after learning whether they had been offered tenure. That may help explain both the depression among the still-employed and the relative well-being of those who lost their...
...ribosome is] the catalytic core of the cell,” said Michael C. Jewett, a research fellow who worked with Church. “The advantage of building them [in a lab] is that you can manipulate the system directly. It’s like opening the hood of a car and having direct access to the machination...
...fact a "docudrama." It is correct that there are reconstructions in the film. But we certainly have made no secret about it. All thinkable efforts have been made to make sure these representations of reality are as truthful and precise as possible. Indeed, they have been created under direct guidance from the Burmese video journalists who were there as eyewitnesses. We will shortly upload a version of the film on our website burmavj.com, where all reconstructions are clearly marked for the benefit of anyone who might take an interest in the matter. Lise Lense-M?ller, Executive Producer, Magic Hour Films...