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...annual costs come to about €3,300 per student - that's less than France pays on average for a nursery-school pupil. At Princeton it's €110,000 per year. But there are structural issues, too. We have to raise the academic level at the universities, lower the number of students in nonscientific courses, and increase the number in shorter and more technical programs. The French seem to think a career choice is a once-in-a-lifetime decision. They do, and it's stupid. I've done a lot of my research and writing in the field...
...nation has 77 million retiring baby boomers on track to collect well above $30,000 a year--the average amount we're paying today's elderly--in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. If you're planning for a cushy retirement, forget it. Get ready for much higher taxes, lower benefits and inflation...
...Friday evening in a trendy London neighborhood called Spitalfields, where the Tesco Express store's young shoppers, filing in from nearby offices, are grabbing a few items before heading home. "I'm lazy," admits Adelaide Turnbull, 23, darting in for a bottle of wine. Larger-format supermarkets might offer lower prices, but yards from her home, this format is convenient, she says. "It works...
...Will This Marriage Last? A wedding-season guide for handicapping the newlyweds. A variety of factors can lower the odds of divorce to 20%, or raise...
...Every wedding is haunted by that axiom, "Half of all marriages end in divorce." But it's not a random coin flip. At the time of a couple's wedding, there are factors already present that can raise the odds of divorce to as high as 70%, or lower it to nearly...