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...Middlebury justify their J-Terms by offering many travel opportunities away from their secluded campuses and requiring students to take advantage of them. Cornell advertises the small class size and personal attention of their J-Term courses. But because we currently enjoy relatively smaller class sizes, a bustling urban campus and because our study abroad program is not prepared to take on the task of organizing so many students traveling aboard at one time—currently less than 100 students study abroad in a given term—Harvard’s J-Term would not provide such benefits...
...URBAN BOARDERS A bold new experiment has kids learning and living at a school in the inner city...
...flinty fiscal disciplinarian is falling back on one of the oldest Washington tropes: Economic growth is the answer. Realistic people, however, tend to disagree with that. "A strong economy is not going to solve the long-run challenge facing Medicare and Social Security," says Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute. A budget expert who has advised Dean and other Democratic candidates is even more blunt. "I don't know whether he knows better or he just doesn't get it," the adviser says. "I liked the old Howard Dean much better...
...Eastern European bases will also be cheaper to operate, put troops closer to current theaters of war and allow them more room to maneuver, say analysts. The Poles, for example, are offering 12,000 hectares of firing ground about 50 km from the German border that includes a specialized urban-warfare training facility complete with underground passages, a railway station and a bank. The Romanian port of Constanta on the Black Sea, already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move...
...What usually happens is ridership declines slightly, but the overall revenue usually goes up a little more than ridership decline,” said Luberoff, who co-authored the 2003 book Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment...