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...Since 2005, travelers on selected flights of Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and half a dozen other carriers have been avoiding this problem with Berlitz World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics of up to 23 languages in 21 languages. So should you be from Brazil and need to brush up on your Tamil, or from Vietnam and require a few phrases of Arabic, a course option will have it covered. The lessons are structured by theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Education | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...nourishment they provide. It's not for nothing that family scrapbooks are usually stuffed with pictures and report cards of the firstborn and successively fewer of the later-borns-and the later-borns notice it. Educational opportunities can be unevenly shared too, particularly in families that can afford the tuition bills of only one child. Catherine Salmon, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Redlands in Redlands, Calif., laments that even today she finds it hard to collect enough subjects for birth-order studies from the student body alone, since the campus population is typically overweighted with eldest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...make a choice between a number of excellent schools. One was the historically elite and notoriously expensive Harvard, with its total cost per year surpassing $41,000 in 2007. Another was the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, where every accepted student is offered a scholarship that completely covers tuition. Morales, whose family would have been unable to pick up the tab for four years of college without financial aid, ultimately forwent the ivy-laden gates of Harvard Yard and now—surprisingly—pays more to attend tuition-free Olin than he would have had he come...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Can't Harvard Be Free? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...property and run your own business... maybe money can be found for other things," the blogger wrote. "Maybe Dad should drop his woodworking hobby and get a real job that offers health insurance rather than making people like me (also with 4 kids in a 600sf smaller house and tuition $16,000 less per kid and no commercial property ownership) pay for it in my taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...HFAI would be overlooked. At that time, the College had stopped short of setting concrete goals for improving aid to all families earning between $100,000 and $200,000. These families, especially those with multiple children in college, can often be just as hard-pressed to come up with tuition dollars as low income families...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Aid That Isn’t Middling | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

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