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...over the past two years. "There is a lot of uncertainty due to the loss of value in families' assets," says Jim Molloy, associate director of financial aid at Notre Dame, where spending on need-based financial aid is up 10%. Mark Evans, director of financial aid at Kent State, reports that requests for additional aid because of "special circumstances" have risen...
...GPRS - the data-friendly wireless system the boffins call 2.5G - remains just another acronym. (The consultancy Analysys reckons only one-third of people with GPRS phones use the new services.) "Even though we've had these mobile data networks up for a couple of years," admits Kent Thexton, chief marketing and data officer at the British network mmO2, "there hasn't been that much to do on them." The operators want badly to change this, 3G or no. Gearing up for Christmas, the wireless industry has begun a big push on a new range of whizzy phones that...
...also be useful for sex, although not in the way you might think. The best male upright walkers could bring back food for the females of their species, increasing their chances of winning a mate and passing on their genes--or so suggests C. Owen Lovejoy of Ohio's Kent State University, the leading proponent of this theory...
...murder-rape adds nothing to the public discourse. The media chose not to print death photos of Princess Diana, and we were none the poorer. But there are exceptions. The Nazis? victims stacked in mounds, the Viet Cong executed with a gunshot to the head, the dead at Kent State and in Rwanda all had families and a human right to dignity. But their deaths had an unfortunate significance for the world; they were conscripted into history in a way that someone knifed in an alley is not. Yes, we would still know what happened to them even...
Princeton freshman Kent DeMond, the meet’s most outstanding diver, won the three-meter diving event while Harvard sophomore Roy Enrique placed fourth—securing the Tigers’ advantage going into the final event—the 400 freestyle relay...