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...didn't expect it to be so popular," she said. "I submitted my project at 11 and expected to be done with it, but I ended up staying up and working...
...Harvard was not the only project on display. Projects ranged from tools to test musical frequencies to a service by Julia S. Howland '12 that sends you realtime sports information. Text "gocrim" followed by a sport to 41411 (the same number as ShuttleBoy) and you'll get information on latest scores and times...
...More People to Work for the Government Perhaps the easiest way for the government to create jobs is for it to create government jobs. The example quoted most often: the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), which during the late 1930s employed more than 8 million people. The jobs were project-based and largely in construction - we got a lot of highways and airports out of it - but also occasionally in professional fields such as teaching, nursing and writing. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...What's not watered down is the tab. The cost of average tuition rose 6.5% this fall, and a report released on Dec. 1 by the Project on Student Debt showed that the IOU is getting bigger. Two-thirds of all students now leave college with outstanding loans; the average amount of debt rose to $23,200 in 2008. In the last academic year, the total amount loaned to students increased about 18% from the previous year, to $81 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Education...
...face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected area nestled at the foot of the southern walls of Jerusalem's Old City. The site is believed to have been the seat of power of the kingdom of David, before King Solomon built his temple higher up on Mount Moriah. Until a few years ago, only a few thousand tourists a year visited the City of David, but Elad's efforts - digging tunnels, uncovering ruins and building a visitor's center - drew...