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...agreed to pass on all donations directly to charity” Laursen said. Osborne will be trekking the snow-covered cliffs with SummitClimb Team, a professional organization that only takes applicants with experience. They will take the “North Col” route to the summit, a steeper and more challenging path than the more frequently traveled “South Col” route, according to Osborne. Yet, Mt. Everest, towering at 29,000 feet on the border of Nepal and Tibet, is a challenge for even the most experienced climber. In the past half-century...
...stuck in the catch-22 income-education cycle: the only way for them to break out of low-paying jobs is to get an education, but the only way to get an education is with money. Hukous exacerbate the problem by forcing those without them to pay a steeper price for tuition. For example, in the typical city of Fenghua, rural hukou-holders pay almost three times more for education than hukou-holders from the city. Compounded with discrimination that makes college admission harder for rural hukou-holders, Chinese laws are indefinitely perpetuating a divide that can only spell further...
...that war is only getting hotter. Over the past year, a reawakened Federal Communications Commission (FCC), prodded by values activists, has rebuked or fined broadcast networks including CBS, Fox and NBC for flesh and F bombs. Now Congress is gearing up to give the FCC stronger weapons: far steeper fines and possibly the power to regulate decency on cable and satellite radio. (That means you, Howard.) George W. Bush last week named a new FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, who talks even tougher on decency than the departed chair, Michael Powell. To emboldened decency monitors, this is a chance to tame...
...prospecting for a bigger comeuppance: he'll show all those naysayer who claim his plan for Social Security is dead. " Someone said, 'It's a steep hill to climb, Mr. President,'" he told the audience at the University of Notre Dame a week ago. "Well, my attitude is, the steeper, the better-because when you get up top, you realize you have left a significant contribution behind...