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Single-stream recycling, which has recently been adopted in various cities and universities across the nation, has been correlated with increased recycling rates. The Web site of Waste Management, America’s top recycling company, states that single-stream recycling has “greatly increased participation and household recovery” of recyclables by 42 percent since they instated the system...
...main ingredient in instant noodles produced nearly 10,000 miles (16,000 km) away in a factory in Central Java, Indonesia. Noodles aren't as important as rice in the world's fourth most populous country, but they can be found in the cupboards of almost every Indonesian household. That wasn't the case a decade ago, however, when inflation and rioting following the fall of President Suharto's 32-year military regime prompted food prices to soar, caused factories to fail and led unemployment to double...
...Harvard officials sent shock waves through academia last December by detailing a new financial-aid policy that will charge families making up to $180,000 just 10% of their household income per year, substantially subsidizing the annual cost of more than $45,600 for all but its wealthiest students. The move was just the latest in what has amounted to a financial-aid bidding war in recent years among the U.S.'s élite universities as they try to ease concerns over staggering tuition bills...
...Even more schools have taken steps to reduce debt among their neediest students. Among them: Caltech, which this year began replacing loans with grants for American students with household incomes below $60,000, and College of the Holy Cross, which offers free tuition to students from its surrounding community in Worcester, Mass., if their family makes less than $50,000. And many public and private universities now offer similar packages to state residents who are at or below the federal poverty level of $21,000 a year for a family of four. "Students' tuition, fees, food, books and a place...
...looks like a child's drawing of a chicken. She also develops a taste for the things humans eat. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many wonderful vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tomoko Yamaguchi), who works in a Senior Center; the boy's father, Koichi (Kazushige Nagashima), is a fisherman whose job keeps him at sea for nights on end. Absent parents, absent children: the theme of Ponyo...