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...better decisions outside the classroom. Even as the financial-literacy movement has gained steam over the past decade, scores have been falling on tests that measure how savvy students are about things such as budgeting, credit cards, insurance and investments. A 2008 survey of college students conducted for the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy found that students who'd had a personal-finance or money-management course in high school scored no better than those who hadn't. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
ANSWERS 1: D; 2: D; 3: D; 4: B Source: The JumpStart Coalition's 2008 Personal Financial Survey...
...will be traveling all the way from Canada to Cambridge in order to test Harvard's black belts. The Grandmaster, who last visited three or four years ago, only makes an appearance for special occasions, said Xie. (Cool fact: taekwondo Olympic silver medalist Mark Lopez, another special guest, helped jumpstart the celebrations last semester by coming to Harvard to run a training seminar...
Many mornings, I have seen Lin with some of his very tall friends munching on breakfast food to help them jumpstart their day. Last weekend, I found myself among a hoard of women’s hockey players as I was trying to make a sandwich by the salad bar. And last night I was seated next to a round table populated by the men’s hockey team...
...person’s ability to differently represent the creativity that is already inside him,” says Justin B. Wymer ’12, a poet, who admits to occasionally using alcohol outside of its societally-sanctioned role as a conversation starter and instead as a literary jumpstart...