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...measured by size alone, the Spanish family has seen better days: until 1996 Spain had the lowest fertility rate in Europe. The rate has actually started to inch back upward, from a low of 1.16 live births per woman in 1996 to 1.38 in 2006. That minor uptick is linked to larger immigrant families, but also to children of Spain's early-1970s baby boom starting to have kids of their own. It's not enough, though, to maintain the population level, so Parliament last year approved a $3,700 "baby bonus" subsidy for each child born...
...Baucus and Charles E. Grassley, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, requested the information late last month from the nation’s wealthiest schools by endowment size...
...five-term in office, as well as return Korea to 7% annual growth and put in place programs to double annual average per capita income to $40,000 over the next decade. His to-do list also includes cutting corporate and property taxes, reducing business regulations, shrinking the size of government and luring more foreign investment. Even before taking office, he announced plans to eliminate a handful of ministries, including the Ministry of Unification, which oversees relations with North Korea; reform the university entrance system; and strengthen English language education in public schools to increase the country's global competitiveness...
Harvard likes to think of itself as an unparalleled leader, in everything from scholarship and cutting edge research to endowment size. In the past, Harvard has often led society down a road of greater acceptance and diversity, from reforming recruiting practices to allowing for open, liberal discourse. Most recently, we have witnessed how Harvard’s decision to dramatically increase financial aid for the middle class has caused multiple other schools to make their education more affordable...
...military is hardly starving. The Pentagon's proposed 2009 Defense Budget is twice the size of the budget President Bush inherited from Bill Clinton. Even without the nearly $200 billion for the wars, the $515 billion tab is on par with the defense budgets of World War II. "Today, free-flowing funding has fundamentally undermined all budget discipline in the Pentagon," says Gordon Adams, who oversaw military spending from a senior post in the Clinton White House...