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...million at state schools, where students will be expected to shoulder 10% higher fees. And, according to the new budget, $1.5 billion will be saved by eliminating senior citizens' annual cost of living increases and other health services (again, depending on where the federal stimulus package is spent, this figure could drop to $500 million...
...Saturday in Beijing, Clinton obliged, and gave indications of a softer U.S approach. She spoke repeatedly of a "positive and cooperative relationship" between the two countries. "We spent a great deal of time on the array of global problems that China and the United States face together and that we can work together to solve," she said after meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. "It's important to the global community, which is counting on China and the United States to collaborate to security and peace and prosperity for all." En route to Beijing she told reporters that...
...fight is more than just a new way to wage an old war of ideas. It's about whether Internet companies whose business is to help users find content that other companies have spent money to create ought to be hailed as innovators or hauled into court as thieves. Some folks, for example, see Google News as a quick and easy way to find the best journalism on the Web. Others complain that it lets the search engine company make billions while the media companies that paid to produce the content struggle to break even...
...Boston on Patriots’ Day in April. But to a select band of individuals from across the country, “the” Boston Marathon happens in February, and requires 24 hours, not 26 miles, of endurance. Every year since 1976, a few hundred fans have spent one full day enjoying the best and worst of the last century’s science fiction cinema. The festival’s location has changed since the event first began—moving from the old Orson Welles Theatre in Cambridge (which burned down in the mid-80s) to West...
...Cantor is right. The funding for the arts is not going to create as many jobs as if the money had been shifted, as Cantor desired, to road infrastructure. In the arts, a lot more money is going to be spent per individual, a lot more money is going to be spent on imported materials, and ultimately, the product born of this expense will be accessible to a few, rather than accessible to many, as the infrastructure would have been...