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...alone in my failings. There's nothing more stereotypically green than an avid recycler - and nothing more rare in real life. Though environmentalists have been pushing recycling for years now, and curbside pickup is increasingly the norm, recycling rates in America remain low. We care about reducing waste and saving the Earth, but sometimes it's Thursday night, Lost is on - and dividing the trash is just too much trouble...
...great apes, they are in decline, victims of poachers who kill them for bush meat, loggers and miners who destroy their habitat and healers who prize their bones as part of a potion for pregnant women. Estimates of the surviving bonobo population range from a few thousand to the low tens of thousands. But every study indicates that the figure is falling...
Kushner’s organization—which also received a grant—allows students to receive private loans from alumni at a low interest rate...
...most important change that this bill would enact would be to raise the maximum number of Pell Grants, the federal grant for students from low-income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate...
...fell swoop.” Murphy called the gift “an exciting opportunity for President Moore and the Lesley community,” and suggested that the money could be used to provide support for student and faculty, particularly for their students who frequently go into relatively low-paying public service professions. The school is best known for its education and teacher-preparation programs. The gift is the 12th largest private donation to an institution of higher education in the past 40 years, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Harvard does not rank among the recipients...