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Federal officials are considering a proposal to launch a massive database that would track college students’ academic progress, tuition payments and financial aid benefits in an effort to gather improved data on higher education...
...would-be presidents look to the internet to gather votes, campus bands like Chester French have created groups to keep fans informed and gain new ones...
...Honiara, and in the provinces, bored youths are turning to marijuana and a nasty moonshine called kwaso. "Young people are coming to the lights of Honiara for work," says police commander Peisley. "And the jobs aren't there. So we're seeing youths gather with nothing to do, and that can lead to street crime and drug and alcohol abuse. Kwaso is becoming a huge issue in the provinces, and it's leading to domestic violence and major and minor assaults." Makira's youthful premier Stephenson bemoans that loss of potential. "Our greatest need is education," he says...
...Pulling ourselves, scratched and sweating, up a rocky bluff out of what Caley named the Devil's Wilderness, it's easy to imagine why he needed to gather his men that night and urge them, as he recounts in his journal, to continue. When they had arrived at the edge of this plunging valley, Caley noted that it seemed "to bid defiance to any man." Going down was brave, says Ian Brown, who leads the Mount Tomah group. A modest, quietly spoken man with a wry sense of humor, he was one of the three men who in 1997 became...
...three years ago in the bad market environment, I gather through the grapevine that 20 percent of Harvard MBAs were not getting jobs,” Soifer said, so the career data for those years may be inaccurate...