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Higher Education May Soon Be Unaffordable for Most Americans, Report Says By TAMAR LEWIN  Published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, while median family income rose 147 percent.

ABC News

Soaring Tuition Pushes College Out of Reach
ABC News - By BILL WEIR Zach Hall is a government major at the University of Texas, but in his senior year, he is also learning about finance -- the hard way.
College May Become Unaffordable for Most in US New York Times
College could become too expensive for 'most Americans' CNN
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Shopping, Cocktail in Hand

By CATHY HORYN

There's a myriad of reasons to spend your days in stores this season, and it's not necessarily to shop.

 

 

Secrets Only Your Witch Would Know By CINTRA WILSON  Enchantments, the witchcraft store in the East Village, comes equipped with customized Solar Blast candles, witches, magical potions and even a black cat.

• Slide Show: Where Witches Shop

 

 

Daily Mail

Episcopal Church dissidents move toward division
Reuters - By Michael Conlon, Religion Writer CHICAGO (Reuters) - Conservatives who have left the US Episcopal Church took the first step on Wednesday to form a separate Anglican Church in North America, following years of division over gay rights and scriptural ...
Traditionalists set to split from Episcopal Church CNN International
Conservatives from Episcopal Church to Form Separate Branch Washington Post
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Future in bits How can the ever-changing web be archived?

Access denied Australia's plan to filter the internet gets under way

 

 

Ancient supernova mystery solved Astronomers have captured light echoes of the historic supernova of 1572, which overturned Aristotle's theory of the universe. Telescope hunts supernovas Exploding star caught in the act

New flying reptile species found A new fossil species of flying reptile - with a wingspan the size of a family car - has been uncovered by scientists.

Venus ultraviolet puzzle 'solved' Scientists have cracked one of the many mysteries of Earth's nearest planetary neighbour Venus.

 

Brilliant future

"Crown jewel" of European science to get upgrade