Word: kantrowitz
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...Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, performed the first human-heart transplant in the U.S., in 1967. The patient, an infant, received a heart from another child but lived only 6 1/2 hours after the surgery. Despite the loss, Kantrowitz's work ushered in a new era in approaches to heart illness...
...grim news: 137 lenders have stopped funding federal student loans and 33 have dropped private programs, according to FinAid.org publisher Mark Kantrowitz. Students at community, technical and for-profit schools have been the hardest hit. Federal Stafford loans were up in the second quarter compared with 2007, but loans made to parents through the PLUS program, which looks at credit history, plummeted--down 29% in dollar volume. Since May, the Education Department has spent some $5 billion buying loans in an effort to reignite private lending...
...situation with student loans doesn't break down quite as neatly. Since the summer of 2007, 137 lenders have stopped funding federal loans, and 33 have suspended private programs, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and other financial aid websites. Part of that had to do with a cut in federal subsidies, but part was directly related to the credit crunch - issuers that pulled out tended to be those that packaged and resold loans, a market that has evaporated...
...directly to students and don't take into account credit history, were up in the second quarter compared to a year ago, loans made to parents through the Parent PLUS program have plummeted - down 29% in dollar volume year-over-year, according to Department of Education data analyzed by Kantrowitz...
...Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the Web site FinAid.org, said that because the report’s proposals do not differ significantly from previous ones, they’re likely to be politically palatable...