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Last year, Harvard Law School went a step further in promoting public service careers as an attractive option for graduates by offering tuition waivers for third-year students who commit to working in public service for five years. This fall, according to Law School Director of Student Financial Services Kenneth H. Lafler, 58 third-year students have signed up for the initiative, which will be run for five years as a trial program, with a budget of $3 million per year...
Yale’s regulations, which were released recently, permit kegs, which are more efficient from an environmental perspective, and allow tailgating to continue through the third quarter...
...aide to former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes, says that paying for medical treatment in Mexico could save Medicare almost a quarter of the average cost for most procedures. "My research, as well as the research of others, shows that health care in Mexico costs less than a third of that in the U.S.," Crist says. (See a guide to what health-care reform really means...
...stable in California while soaring 50% nationwide, saving Californians an estimated $56 billion and avoiding the need for 24 new gas-fired power plants. On the supply side, the state has required utilities to provide one-fifth of their power from renewables by 2010, which will jump to one-third by 2020. And California's soup-to-nuts effort to slash emissions - including a cap-and-trade regimen in 2012 - is the blueprint for federal climate legislation. (Download a PDF on California's industries, labs and technologies...
...annual world press freedom index. Atop the list, which is compiled based on questionnaires completed by hundreds of media experts and journalists worldwide, are a Scandinavian quartet - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - and Ireland. The bottom three spots are occupied by Turkmenistan (173rd), North Korea (174th) and, for the third year in the row, Eritrea (175th). The report calls these nations "the infernal trio ... where the media are so suppressed they are non-existent." In between those poles, a few other regions made notable moves this year. Though it's long been a pace-setter for journalistic freedom, Europe faltered...