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BLACKSBURG, VA. Virginia Tech students return to classes...
Aside from retention issues, Webb's bill faces another significant hurdle: cost. The VA estimates that the price tag for improving education benefits for post-9/11 veterans would be $74.7 billion through 2017. Webb counters by pointing to 1944, when the G.I. Bill was expanded to give tuition benefits to all service members who fought in World War II. "Nobody asked these financial questions when they had 8 million returning veterans," he says...
...humanely treated farm animals. She wasn't in it to earn a good return; she wanted to make a difference. Last year more than 14 million farm animals were raised under her guidelines--up from 143,000 in her first year. Now her Humane Farm Animal Care in Herndon, Va., is attracting enough support for her to take a better salary than she earned at her last job, with the American Humane Association. "It was kind of impulsive," she says of investing all her assets in the venture. "I wouldn't suggest that everyone do it. But the stock market...
...work. Rather than issue a test on what it means to be conservative, they deliver what the people and environment need. Both have the special qualities of great leaders: the ability to see around corners, understand the ramifications of policies and lead by example and inclusion. David Post, ANNANDALE, VA...
Many parents today do the same. Health e-Lunch Kids, based in Falls Church, Va., is one of a growing number of niche companies swooping in to take care of the mundane tasks of parenting, all in the name of helping moms and dads attain a better work-life balance. Other lunchmakers include Brown Bag Naturals in Los Angeles and Kid Chow in San Francisco. Shuttle services like Mother Hen's Helpers in suburban New York and Kids in Motion in Pennsylvania will ferry your child to soccer practice or a doctor's appointment. And there are companies that will...