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...used to be the U.S. Secretary of Education, but today he travels the nation to preach the home-school gospel. "I'm here to talk about the revolution of common sense," he told a Denver home-schooling conference in June. Working himself up to promote K12, his slick, new, for-profit online school for home schoolers, Bennett even suggested that "maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home schoolers." It was strange to watch a man once responsible for federal aid to public schools urge people to desert them. Imagine if Colin Powell gave a speech saying...
...FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES AND PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE YOU MAY BE BROADCASTING YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET...
Along with Let’s Go, the Harvard Shop will be HSA’s only for-profit enterprise and its first fully-stocked retail store. The new acquisition represents at least a 20-fold increase in HSA’s inventory...
...example, may end up costing patients like Victoria Reiter as much as $2,400 every month?nearly $30,000 a year?for the rest of her newly prolonged life. While the National Cancer Institute funds basic research into cancer biology, the bulk of drug development is done by for-profit pharmaceutical firms. These companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market?partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required by U.S. law and partly because for every medicine finally approved...
...example, may end up costing patients like Victoria Reiter as much as $2,400 every month--nearly $30,000 a year--for the rest of her newly prolonged life. While the National Cancer Institute funds basic research into cancer biology, the bulk of drug development is done by for-profit pharmaceutical firms. These companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market--partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required by U.S. law and partly because for every medicine finally approved...