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...proposed changes, issued last Thursday by the independent Rethinking Student Aid study group, include obtaining all financial information from the IRS, instead of requiring that students compile tax information themselves. The report also calls for adjusting the size of Pell Grants for inflation while accounting for family size and adjusted gross income...
Finally, the report proposes developing a federal savings program for low-income families, in which the government would make deposits into an account which could only be drawn upon for postsecondary education...
...quick to blame the dairy industry for their skewed rules, but what it didn't say was that the government also played a part in that ugly game," wrote a blogger identified as sadmoon109. Outraged citizens have noted that, in May, China's food-safety administration issued a report saying that 99.1% of baby milk powders on the market had passed safety tests. The report reaffirmed the quality of 16 dairy products previously exempted from further quality inspections - including some of those now on the blacklist...
...Modern Language Association report issued last November cited the steady rise of student enrollment in Chinese language courses nationwide, spotting a 50 percent hike from 2002-2006. Harvard enrollment figures have shown an upward trend over the same time period. 2005 saw the enrollment of 273 Chinese language students, followed by 348 the following year, and roughly 350 last year...
...guardian angel encounter figures were "the big shocker" in the report, says Christopher Bader, director of the Baylor survey that covered a range of religious issues, parts of which are being released Thursday in a book titled What Americans Really Believe. In the case of angels, however, the question is a little stronger than just belief. Says Bader, "If you ask whether people believe in guardian angels, a lot of people will say, 'sure.' But this is different. It's experiential. It means that lots of Americans are having these lived supernatural experiences...