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...Operating costs for the marathon were covered by a Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor grant and a grant from the Undergraduate Council. Including ticket sales and donations from corporate sponsors, the marathon raised approximately $3,000, according to Verma. Compared to dance marathons held at other colleges throughout the nation, the HCDM’s fundraising efforts fell short. The Children’s Miracle Network Dance Marathon Program has aided different colleges throughout the nation to raise anywhere from a few thousand dollars to over $100,000. Penn State—the first school to partner with the network...
Haiti is a country of constant heartbreak, and the most recent catastrophes in that unfortunate land have become metaphors for the nation's hopelessness. Classes were in session when College La Promesse Evanglique, a school of 500 students in a suburb of the capital, collapsed and crushed at least 91 people, mostly school children. The likely cause: shoddy construction. But nearly a week after the collapse, the government has yet to determine an exact body count. The frustration was compounded when, five days after the disaster, another school suffered a partial collapse. No one appears to have died in that...
...propitious time to bank on the renaissance of a 1,500-room resort whose in-season rates start at $399 a night. "In this economy, what are they thinking?" the Miami Herald asked in a front-page article this week. And in Miami - which last month had the nation's third-highest number of home foreclosures - residents may find it outright offensive to hold a power party whose posh, satin-lined box invitations alone cost $70 a piece just to print and assemble...
...family needs an income closer to $100,000 just to afford an average single-family home here. The in-your-face lifestyles of Miami's rich-and-famous have encourged the not-rich to emulate their ways - creating the kind of credit-driven nightmare that has sapped the nation during this crisis. Much moreso than in other U.S. cities, profligate values, from condo-flipping to Jaguar-leasing, hold sway here. In that sense, this weekend's Fontainebleau fete is pure Miami: the dysfunctional creed, to quote the title of Lapidus' autobiography, that Too Much Is Never Enough...
...That modest, albeit startling growth allowed French officials to express the hope that a recession may yet be averted. But with the entire 27-nation European Union economy sliding .02% in the third quarter, and major industries such car manufacturing posting a combined 15% drop in sales last month, experts advise against viewing Europe's economic glass as anything but half empty, and leaking...