Word: hike
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...result is a landscape harnessed for productivity but appearing unspoiled and serene. The Ifugao built terraces from the edges of their villages into the hills, ensuring their tiny settlements would never grow. The only way to reach Batad is on foot, a steep, two-and-a-half hour hike from Bangaan on narrow paddy walls, a tough walk in which beauty and effort compete to take away your breath...
...financial aid increase also comes with a hike in tuition, as did Harvard's change in financial aid policy...
...bamboo forests and the tiny aboriginal settlement of Tianshih. From there, follow a 10-km trail to a logging road that leads to the town of Lushan. It's important to be met at the trail head: the walk down the road to Lushan is daunting. The Chilai Ridge hike takes three days and three nights, and as with the Yushan trip, hikers have to carry all their supplies, including water, tents and food. Similar two- to four-day walks to the summits of Tapachienshan, Nengkaoshan and Hsuehshan (Snow Mountain) are also recommended...
Regressive taxes under George W. Bush's new plan, regressive tax under Harvard's tuition hike--now do you see the problem...
...does not release figures on family income. It is hard to tell what the 70 percent of the student body on financial aid represents. All we do know is that the average grant Harvard gives is around $18,000 (it will be $20,000 next year reflecting the aid hike). We also know that only 50 percent of Harvard students are on Harvard aid. Twenty percent receive federal aid and work-study but not Harvard money. Those students, who don't qualify as "needy" are, to some degree, the middle class. Harvard has a tendency to lump these two groups...