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...first college in America to break the $25,000-a-year barrier. Tuition, room and board now set a Yale family back $25,110, and there have been media reports that such high costs could drive away potential applicants. Admissions are themselves a campus issue. The Yale Daily Herald reported last month that fewer high school seniors have applied over the last four years, a greater percentage have been admitted and a lower percentage have matriculated...
...which attempted to empower schoolchildren's parents at the expense of education bureaucrats, has just been defeated in our nation's most populous state. California voters rejected Proposition 174 and its plan to distribute $2,600 in education funds to the parents of schoolchildren throughout the state. Some will herald this "victory" of the teachers' union and celebrtate the supposed death of school choice as a state or national issue. But they will witness the speediest resurrection in 2,000 years...
...legal actions herald a major new offensive by America's antismoking forces. Their campaign, having stormed through airplane cabins, office buildings and restaurants, is moving into the home. "Parents exposing their children to secondhand smoke is the most common form of child abuse in America," argues attorney John F. Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults...
...LIGHTWEIGHT EIGHTS: The men's shells are chasing a time of 14:45.1 in their quest for the Boston Herald Trophy. The women are pursuing the Boston Trophy, looking to break the record...
...Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has commented on the issue already, and local television stations are reportedly preparing pieces, a number of Westfield students said yesterday...