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...President of the U.S., has already paid a year's worth of tuition at Stanford, one of a growing list of schools that cost more than $30,000 a year, he feels your pain. So too, apparently, does Congress, which is why there has been a recent spate of legislation making college more affordable. The tools and the resources are there. If you plan ahead and do your homework, you too can afford to send your kids to college...
...Everyone knows that profits and good care are not compatible" is how Pat McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, explains the persistence of nursing-home abuses. But a recent spate of multimillion-dollar jury awards to nursing-home residents and their families because of poor care may force some homes to improve. A California woman won a $95 million verdict after the jury was told how she broke her shoulder and shattered her hip (last month a judge cut the award to $3 million), and a jury awarded $6.3 million to the family of a Florida...
...YORK: After suffering from a momentary lapse of enthusiasm Wednesday, Internet stocks reignited Thursday following an amazing spate of announcements from Wall Street's darling, Yahoo. The buoyant trio of Net portals -- Yahoo, Excite and Lycos -- was up a combined 20 points by noon, with Yahoo accounting for half that gain, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ was pushing into record territory...
...turns on what society deems to be "reasonable" activity at a given time. "Judicial opinions are dressed up in the language of legal doctrine, but it all depends on public opinion and public policy," says University of Arkansas law professor Andrew McClurg. If national outrage over the recent spate of school massacres and other highly publicized acts of gun violence finds its way into the jury box, the gun industry could start losing...
...thunder out of Asia rolled into Russia last week, shaking the already wobbly economy and its twitchy investors. A spate of panic selling sent the stock market plunging and plunging, and it ended the week worth half as much as it was a year ago. Even before the bubble popped in Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia, Boris Yeltsin's government was living dangerously. It was juggling $150 billion in foreign debt, running huge budget deficits and resorting to a kind of pyramid scheme in which it was selling new treasury bills to pay interest on those it had sold earlier...