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...July 1, interest rates on Stafford loans—the principal form of federal student loans—will rise from 5.3 percent to 6.8 percent for new loans and 7.14 percent for outstanding loans. This marks one of the single largest rate increases in the program’s 41-year history...
Kinsley has become a leading figure in exploring the use of alternative media in journalism. He joined CNN’s Crossfire in 1989 before the rise of cable television news and, with Microsoft’s backing, founded Slate—an online magazine devoted to politics, culture, and arts—in the Internet’s infancy, years before buckets of ink were spilled on the political might of the blogosphere...
...Further fueling this domestic-tourism boom is the dramatic rise in car sales and the rapid construction of a national highway network, making travel more practical and alluring. China has about 34,000 km of highways, a number that's expected to more than double by 2020. "The highways linking cities in Inner Mongolia are better than the road between Sydney and Melbourne," marvels Bruce McKenzie, who oversees China operations for the U.K.-based InterContinental group, which is among the most aggressive of the international players in China. It currently runs 54 hotels there, mostly under the Holiday Inn marque...
...when she was 24. Just four years later she was dead, but she left behind a legend and a stunning body of work. After years of relative neglect, modern art is now going through an extraordinary boom in India. Entrepreneurs, engineers and stockpickers enriched by the nation's economic rise have discovered that abstract paintings can make for a good investment, and prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot...
Does it really matter? As a friend said, "So what if the average American now has two close friends, not three? Two is plenty." But that's exactly like saying, "If global temperatures rise from 65°F to 70°F, I wouldn't even notice." That's fine, as long as you ignore the indirect effects, like mega-hurricanes in the Gulf...