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New Research Digs Into Mysterious Origins of Coal
Hermann Pferfferkorn of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “But, most of the time, there isn’t very much — the coal is usually only found in certain areas, and the amounts that do exist do not compare to the huge quantities formed in the Carboniferous and Cenozoic.”
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Why a $550 Incentive to Lose Weight Failed
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on why offering monetary incentives to workers to lose weight was unsuccessful.
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Cheap Oil 101: U.S. May Have Finally Moved Beyond '70s Turmoil
Ruben Lobel of the Wharton School is quoted about crude oil, conversations about the U.S. carbon footprint and motives behind purchasing an electric car.
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The Case for Allowing U.S. States to Declare Bankruptcy
David Skeel of the Law School talks about bankruptcy.
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Senate Democrats Launch Campaign to Reduce Student Debt
With the staggering cost of college a key issue on the presidential campaign trail, Senate Democrats are seizing the opportunity to promote a legislative package designed to address affordability. On Thursday, lawmakers unveiled the Reducing Educational Debt (RED) Act, comprised of three bills that party members have championed over the last year or two. The package includes legislation introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in 2014 to let borrowers refinance their federal and private student loans at a lower interest rate.
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Wanted: High-character Students
Each year colleges invite applicants to sing their own praises, by listing achievements and proclaiming passions. Now some admissions offices are emphasizing students’ concern for others and the world beyond their test-prep manuals. For the last few months, some admissions leaders have quietly discussed strategies for encouraging good citizenship, not just résumé-polishing, among high-school students.
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The Strange Life of Q-tips, the Most Bizarre Thing People Buy
Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School comments on the difficulty in changing how consumers perceive Q-tips due to their history brand.
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Should College Be Free?
Politicians on the right and left are talking about college affordability. Democratic presidential candidates are divided over how much should be done to ease the cost of higher education. Tennessee is offering free community college tuition to all its high school graduates and a slate of candidates for the Board of Overseers at Harvard University wants to end undergraduate tuition there. To level the playing field, should tuition at public colleges be ended?
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First-generation College Students Are Not Succeeding In College, and Money Isn’t the Problem
Christopher Feaster lived in a homeless shelter in D.C. for most of high school. Laundry was a once-a-month luxury. “I would have to re-wear socks,” he says. “They were white socks, but they were so dirty that they were brown and sometimes they were starting to go black. I had to re-wear underwear because I didn’t have clean underwear.” Homeless students face terrible odds of graduating high school, but Christopher excelled at school.
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Pell Grant Expansion A Goal of Obama Administration
The Obama administration wants to expand the federal Pell grant program to help more students graduate from college — by providing them with money to attend classes year-round and reward them for taking more credits. Two new proposals, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, would expand the $29 billion program by $2 billion in the new fiscal year. They’ll be part of President Barack Obama’s budget proposal next month.