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Russ Whitehurst, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says that while some schools have been promising to refund money if credit hours don't transfer to another school or if tuition increases after the first semester, he believes Lansing's get-a-job-or-your-money-back offer is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A College Guarantees Job Offers — or Else a Refund | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

But for Lansing Community College, this new and very targeted money-back guarantee may be a stroke of marketing genius. The school will get to pick from qualified applicants, and may induce some people who never thought of themselves as college material to sign up for classes at Lansing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A College Guarantees Job Offers — or Else a Refund | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

3. The U.S. won't develop new nuclear weapons - maybe Last December, Senate Republicans sent a letter to Obama saying they would fight the ratification of arms-control treaties unless the President guaranteed the longevity of aging U.S. nuclear weapons - code for building new nukes. In interviews this week, Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

4. There's still a deterrent against nuclear terrorism The NPR keeps in place an ambiguous declaration from the Bush years that the U.S. "will hold fully accountable" any state that "supports or enables" terrorists in their mission to use weapons of mass destruction. That implies that the U.S. would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

5. Belgium, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands remain de facto nuclear powers Yes, that's right. The mighty Belgian air force is nuclear-armed. Although none of the four countries have their own nuclear weapons, there are an estimated 200 B-61 thermonuclear-gravity bombs scattered across their land. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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