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Though the relaunch was “not predicated on financial issues,” Turner said it is an opportunity to move Africana in a profit-generating direction by strengthening its audience base and attracting advertisers...
...Fodor’s survey found that only 23 percent of travelers read the Gideons Bible in hotel rooms. It is time to supplement the Bible with another canonical text: the United States Constitution. Americans should form a non-profit organization based on the Gideons model to raise money and distribute Constitutions in hotel rooms across the country. The health of American democracy will certainly benefit, even if only a fraction of travelers pick it up. And non-Christians will no longer have to settle for just a telephone book and a TV Guide...
...children through grade 12 is $6 billion short of the amount outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act for 2004. It cuts $1.5 billion in programs covering rural education, dropout prevention and physical education, among others. Ross Wiener, an education policy analyst at the Education Trust, a non-profit organization, commented that “if money indicates priorities, the president believes No Child Left Behind is one sixty-seventh as important as cutting taxes...
...suggest that students who want to sell books ask about 60 percent of the price they paid for them," Lofchie stated, "and, since there is no profit for us to deduct, we sell them for that price, which often turns out to be almost a third loss than the same book would cost at one of the local stores. In that way, both buyer and seller get an unusually good deal...
...typical of the humor that MTVU will likely display. MTVU will showcase life at colleges across the country—from Harvard to the University of Puget Sound. College kids have disposable income and tons of leisure time, but no station has ever been successful in churning a profit from them...