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...could answer questions ranging from what the food is like to how easy it is to make friends at college. It was, plain and simple, a recruiting mission. "By letting current students tell their stories," says Donald Bremme, associate professor of education and faculty coordinator of Whittier's program, "we hope to catch younger kids before the alternative attractions show...
...message that anyone can go to college and need to know how to make that possible," says Diana Phillips, director of the U.S. Department of Education's middle school initiative, Think College Early. "In many households, the idea of talking about college doesn't exist," says Phillips, whose program's goal is to let all kids, regardless of family income or their parents' educational level, know they have a chance to earn a college degree...
...kinds of initiatives are springing up all over the country," says Ann Coles, executive director of the Higher Education Information Center and founder of Kids to College, a program that each year gives 2,000 Massachusetts grade school youngsters a chance to learn about and see colleges. In 1991, when Kids to College began, there were about 20 such programs in the country. Today, she says, there are more than 1,000, including ones sponsored by Exxon...
...Still, the idea of essentially bribing North Korea not to cause trouble has become part of Washington?s playbook since a 1994 deal that dismantled Pyongyang?s weapons-grade nuclear energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold...
...missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance. And extortion may have actually been the objective of North Korea?s missile rattling. "They keep cranking up their threat as high as it can go and we keep paying, so why shouldn?t they?" says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...