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Community colleges are deeply unsexy. This fact tends to make even the biggest advocates of these two-year schools - which educate nearly half of U.S. undergraduates - sound defensive, almost a tad whiny. "We don't have the bands. We don't have the football teams that everybody wants to boost...
That is, if they have enough resources to handle all the students. Chronically cash-starved, two-year schools pull in an average of just 30% of the federal funding per student allocated to state universities - though they educate nearly the same number of undergraduates. (Even after you account for the...
The Muzak at the glitzy Grand Indonesia mall competed with the chatter from shoppers taking advantage of a national holiday to stroll through one of Southeast Asia's largest malls. Last Friday, July 17, a pair of bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, killing seven...
Poor community colleges. President Barack Obama made a historic announcement on July 14 - that he's seeking $12 billion over the next decade to beef up funding for these two-year institutions, which educate nearly half of U.S. undergrads - but you'd never know it from the crickets in medialand...
A clutch of Western countries have put curbs on burqas and niqabs, the full-face veils that leave only a slit for the eyes. The Irish have banned the burqa from classrooms, and in June, the Michigan Supreme Court gave judges the power to direct how witnesses dress for court...