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Someone at technology news site, Cnet, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon's miracle book reader, the Kindle. Seven hundred people responded, which puts the survey somewhat below what researchers would expect from Gallup, but it is a reasonable straw poll, nonetheless...
Most Harvard students rationalize the exorbitant cost of their education by viewing it as a prudent investment. Armed with bachelors’ degrees branded with Harvard’s prestigious name, many expect careers lucrative enough to exceed the nearly $200,000 spent during their four years in Cambridge. In order to result in a net utility gain and therein to serve as a judicious investment, the benefits of student’s time spent under the Crimson must exceed the costs—both the direct financial cost of attending, pegged at $48,868 for next year...
...Numerous studies have arrived at the same conclusion: namely, that it pays to go to selective schools. Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby found that students at elite universities can expect to earn back the difference in cost between the tuition at their first-rank private institution and a third-rank public institution more than 30 times over the course of their careers. Ronald Ehrenberg, a Cornell University economist, also found compelling evidence of a significant economic return to attending a private university: a premium that the data suggests has increased over time...
...That was one thing I didn’t expect,” Spies-Gans says, referring to the science-to-art piece. “I don’t understand exactly how it works; it’s made of different circles and oval shapes—it’s all about the conceptualization of data...
...billion "reserve fund," paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy, but even if that passes, experts say it won't be enough to cover even half the cost of comprehensive health-care reform over the next 10 years. Hospitals and doctors are also bracing for what they expect will be efforts to cut the reimbursements they get for treating patients under Medicare and Medicaid. (See an illustrated time line of Obama's first 100 days in office...