Financing for Colleges Declines as Costs Rise
Date: 06 March 2013
By TAMAR LEWIN
Tamar LEWIN
Annual report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association finds that state and local financing for higher education declined 7 percent in 2012, even as tuition levels have risen; points to long-term trend in which cost of higher education is shifting from the public onto students and their families.
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News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools
Date: 06 March 2013
By AMY CHOZICK
Amy CHOZICK
New Corporation's fledgling education division Amplify will offer its curriculum not just on existing tablet computers but also on its own branded 10-inch Android tablet for K-12 schoolchildren.
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Report Details Mistakes Made by U.S. in Improvement Projects for Iraq
Date: 06 March 2013
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Michael GORDON
Government report details mistakes made by United States in improvement projects for Iraq and reflects views of officials from both countries that United States took on too many large projects and often did not consult with Iraqis about which projects were needed and how best to go about them; as result, Iraqis lacked ability to continue projects as American presence dwindled, and United States suffered loss of good will and leverage.
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U.S. Catholics in Poll See a Church Out of Touch
Date: 05 March 2013
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN
Laurie GOODSTEIN
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Nash and His 2 Goals Power Rangers Over Flyers
Date: 06 March 2013
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
Jeff KLEIN
New York Rangers winger Rick Nash leads team in 4-2 victory over Philadelphia Flyers.
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Chinese Premier’s Parting Words Include Warning
Date: 06 March 2013
By ANDREW JACOBS and CHRIS BUCKLEY
Andrew JACOBS
Wen Jiabao, in his final address as China’s prime minister, warns of growing divisions between rich and poor, hazards of unchecked environmental degradation and risks posed by unbalanced economic growth; Wen also, in break from past, refrains from mentions of rampant corruption in Communist Party.
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Venezuelan Expatriates See a Reason to Celebrate
Date: 06 March 2013
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Lizette ALVAREZ
News of Hugo Chavez's death elicits outpourings of raucous celebration in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where more Venezuelan expatriates live than anywhere else in country and where Chavez is particularly reviled.
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North Carolina to Give Some Immigrants Driver’s Licenses, With a Pink Stripe
Date: 06 March 2013
By KIM SEVERSON
Kim SEVERSON
North Carolina will begin giving some young immigrants driver's licenses marked with pink stripe and words 'no lawful status'; licenses, which have attracted both praise and criticism, will be issued to those who qualify for federal two year deportation deferrals under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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You May Now Kiss the Computer Screen
Date: 06 March 2013
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Sarah NIR
Some international couples are marrying by proxy over the Internet, practice so new immigration authorities say they do not typically watch for it in efforts to detect fraud; procedure had been used in United States, usually by members of military worried about being killed and leaving loved ones without benefits, but is also being used in immigrant communities, where people are seeking to marry partners from their homelands without expense of matchmaking trips abroad.
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