Pa. University Targets Overweight Students
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Education
alexsl/iStockphoto.comCollege Graduates Struggle To Repay Loans
()The abysmal job market is making it hard for some to start making student loan payments, which come due this month for May graduates. A new law could ease the pain for some: It limits monthly payments to 15 percent of a graduate's income.
When Your Boss Wants Your DNA
An anti-discrimination law now prevents employers from requiring workers to share DNA.
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Protests, Arrests Follow UC's 32 Percent Fee Hike()
November 21, 2009 Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the daylong occupation to an end, university officials said.
Latin America
Socialite's School Brings Hope To Brazilian Slum()
November 21, 2009 Brazil's ghettos are poverty stricken and violent. But there are people fighting against the odds to turn things around for the poor children of Rio de Janeiro. Among them is an unusual apostle: a Rio socialite who founded a school for slum-dwelling children and views education as an equalizer.
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Chicago School Board Chief's Death Raises Questions()
November 20, 2009 Michael Scott was found shot in the head Monday, his body partially submerged in the Chicago River. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, but so far police have not reached that conclusion, and there's widespread disbelief among the mayor and others that Scott would have killed himself.
