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Avoid These College Money Pitfalls As the parent of a college student, which of these two recent grads do you hope your child will resemble?
The first, Tamanika Ferguson, earned $80,000 in scholarships to California State University and graduated debt-free last spring. The second, who asks to be referred to only as "Jane," graduated around the same time... CLICK HERE FOR MORE |
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Creativity and Consciousness A young man sits expectantly on the Power Center stage, electrodes attached to his head. Behind him is an enormous colored projection of the EEG that's monitoring his brain. On his right stands John Hagelin, a Harvard-educated physicist and former presidential candidate. On his left is David Lynch, director of surrealistic works like Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks... CLICK HERE FOR MORE
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What's So Funny? Last summer, Britain's University of Wolverhampton published a list of the world's oldest jokes. Topping the list was an ancient Sumerian saying traced back to 1900 BC: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap." OK, so Sumerian humor was a little low-brow. But even 4,000 years later, flatulence jokes still get laughs. Which brings up an interesting question: why? What makes us find certain things funny? And while our fellow species struggle grimly for survival, why did human beings develop the capacity to laugh? CLICK HERE FOR MORE
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Doing Time - Tales from the Washtenaw County Jail Steve had been walking past the apartment for hours, trying to appear casual, waiting for the right moment. Then he saw the occupants - two college kids - walk laughing to their neighbors' house, beers in hand. They left the screen door open behind them. Steve crept silently toward the door, struggling to concentrate. His nose was running, his eyes were watery, and the nausea he'd felt since morning was getting worse. But if he could just pull this off, he knew that everything would be all right... CLICK HERE FOR MORE
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Immigrants on ICE "Jessica Morales"-that's not her real name-thought she'd found a relatively safe place to live as an undocumented immigrant. With U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) focusing on communities with larger immigrant populations, Morales and her husband lived and worked peacefully in Ypsilanti for over four years, in spite of their illegal status. Then, on March 16, she heard a knock on the door... CLICK HERE FOR MORE
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