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...year. The government subsidizes the remaining cost per student, which can be as high as $16,160 per year. An increase in the number of students can also mask the growing unemployment problem in France, according to François Ameli, a professor of international law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. "The philosophy of France [on higher education] is a mass sort of thing. We have over 2.2 million students, which is a lot for a country of 60 million," Ameli says. "Universities are also a reservoir before unemployment, so [the government] can avoid putting students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Education Crisis: College Costs Soar | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...wrasses occasionally cheat and take a nip of their client's body. When they work alone, the wrasses strike a balance between cleaning and cheating so as not to lose their client's business. But wrasses also work in pairs. In these situations, explains Redouan Bshary of the Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland - one of the authors of a new study in the journal Science, the fish face a dilemma: "Theoretically, the best idea would be to bite your client right away before your partner does, because if the client swims away, you get the benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fish (Yes, Fish) Punish One Another | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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