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Although Deep Springs charges no tuition fees, the school faces losing outstanding applicants to other top institutions that guarantee a financially-needy applicant four years of financial aid, as opposed to Deep Springs’ two. For some students, two years in the desert isn’t worth the...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Back from the Ranch | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Our society relies on its newspapers to check powerful individuals and institutions. An administration-controlled student paper poses the same threat to an academic community that a state-controlled press would to a nation; oversight limits the press’ ability to act as a watchdog and prevent misuse of...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Defending the Collegiate Press | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Space watchers could thus be forgiven for being wary Monday, when NASA announced its plans for a manned moon base in the south lunar pole, a settlement that it says should be up and running in 2020 and permanently occupied in 2024. A manned space program that has done nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promising the Moon | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Gates later hedged on some of his blunt opening words. After asserting that the U.S. is not winning the war, he added that U.S. forces are not necessarily losing. And after watching TV news accounts of his jarring opening answer during a lunch break, Gates returned in the afternoon with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates's Candor Wins Over the Democrats | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

Meanwhile, tobacco companies are on the defensive. Last month, Philip Morris USA, whose products are reported to account for 71% of the brands featured in movies since 1990, launched an advertising campaign asking entertainment industry officials to voluntarily eliminate its products in all movies and television shows "You have the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies That Blow Smoke | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

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