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...seniors have decided to ride out the uncertain economy by staying in school longer than they had planned. Scores of honors graduates at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pa., are taking the school's offer of a fifth year of tuition-free classes. Elsewhere, thousands of college students have to shell out big bucks to go to grad school. The number of students who took the Graduate Record Examinations, a requirement for many graduate programs, jumped 18% this year. But the glut of applicants has driven down acceptance rates, which at the University of Buffalo Law School, for example, have dropped...
...though O’Brien is a household name, most Poonsters who have gone on to work in comedy do so behind the scenes and are far less recognizable than Franken’s trademark tortoise shell glasses and curly brown hair...
...buildings ‘Knafel Center’ satisfies a crying ego need I apparently have,” Knafel said. “But I figured I could overcome that and free up a building for some guy who’s got to come along and shell out a couple of bucks...
...mechanism which stabilizes the shell and allows the boat to be steered came off around the 100-meter mark. The point at which the rudder came off is significant because after 100 meters, the race cannot be stopped for technical malfunctions...
With its hardened shell and oversize antennae, it looks like a cockroach with antlers. But the Asian long-horned beetle is no ordinary menace. It's a hungry tree-eating machine with no natural predators and a hankering for U.S. hardwoods-maple, poplar, birch, elm, ash, horse chestnut and willow. The first specimens came to the U.S. as stowaways in wooden packing crates from China and Hong Kong. The beetles turned up in Brooklyn, N.Y., six years ago, in Chicago two years later and in New York City's Central Park this winter, and have already destroyed thousands of trees...