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...school announced a major expansion to their financial aid program to provide assistance to families making up to $200,000 annually. Student fees at Yale have increased by an average of five percent over the past three years, according to the Yale Daily News. Harvard’s tuition hike is lower than Princeton’s, however. Princeton will raise its price by 3.9 percent to $45,695. Last year, the New Jersey university froze its tuition costs but its overall student fees rose by 4.2 percent. Total costs at private, four-year universities for this academic year rose...
...this hullabaloo prompted the HUDS PR department to kick into gear, heralding town hall meetings, open letters and House Council debates galore. The root of the problem is not malice, however; it’s a severe hike in world food prices. Last year saw new records set for wheat and corn prices, and, despite falling since their peaks, they are still high above the average. Unsurprisingly, HUDS is therefore undergoing a serious budget crunch, which means that you can say goodbye to all the rainbow highlights of your humdrum student life—tasty little bacon bits, those weird...
...poorer countries, the same price hike has left low-income families struggling to maintain a minimal diet. Egypt, which subsidizes bread prices for its poorest citizens, had to shell out an extra $850 million on wheat last year, and the UN blames rising food prices for difficulty in meeting many of its Millennium Development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa...
...When I was older, she led a family backpacking expedition in California’s Lassen Park. Finding a long trail through a barren desert and up a cindercone volcano, she decided we were going to hike it. Never mind the heat. We ran out of water halfway there, but somehow made it back alive. After we collapsed from exhaustion, she announced that a trek up another mountain was in order. Her conviction didn’t waver after returning hikers informed us they had been pelted by hail near the summit. This was my aunt...
...political dispute between government officials and Ladakh's notoriously crowded field of NGOs. Still, the quixotic Ice Man remains determined to prove the power of his invention. His biggest and most successful glacier is also the most remote, meaning that few officials are willing to make the seven-mile hike to see it. One nearer to town has been reduced to a series of dirt pits from neglect and a major flood. Unperturbed, Norphel sees this as a chance to rebuild the perfect showpiece...