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Another advantage of wealth is tutoring. Tutoring has always been a way for students to gain an edge on the SATs. Wealthier students can more readily afford such assistance, as well as better tailor it to their needs. Many SAT tutors charge exorbitantly high amounts of money for their services. These fees are well worth it to parents who believe that a high SAT score is their son or daughter’s ticket to colleges like Harvard—but sadly out of reach for many more...
...Korean rival Samsung Electronics, the two largest makers of LCD panels, may be best placed to weather any downturn because of their large market shares, strong technology and deep pockets. Analysts are most worried about smaller Taiwanese companies. Under current market conditions, "manufacturers have very little to gain," says Hitoshi Kuriyama, a consumer-electronics analyst at Merrill Lynch in Japan. "The winner is the consumer...
...will be in a state of anxiety as they mourn the loss of the father figure who symbolized their national aspirations. After years of fruitless struggle, Palestinians remain united only in grief and fear of chaos. Their economy has been shattered, their government is bankrupt, and militants continue to gain strength. Most Palestinians yearn for peace but doubt that whoever leads them next will achieve it. "I am not hopeful," says Fawzi, 35, a Ramallah phone-company worker. "The Palestinian-Israeli problem has reached the point of no solution...
...paid and job-protected maternity leave of 16 weeks as well as a palette of allowances to help out with everything from education to housing to transportation; the benefits increase steeply for the third child. Partly as a result of policies like these, France had a net natural gain in population last year of 211,000, while the E.U. as a whole only had a net natural gain of 200,000, not including immigration...
...just make sure that if he does gain yards, he’s going to feel it when he gets up off the field,” Thomas says. “Make sure he finishes on his back and feels some sort of pain when he gets...