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Quick: What will $36,750 buy you?
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - If only salaries would rise as rapidly - and as consistently - as college costs.
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Across the nation, on the Web and in the home, classrooms are evolving beyond the traditional learning environment with alternatives that are no longer bound by geography and customary modes of operation.
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It's nearly noon, and 11-year-old student Elisheva Ben-Avraham is just now thinking about breakfast. She's curled up on her family's velvety brown sofa flipping through a book of math problems when the mood strikes. She pulls her bare feet out from underneath her, pads to the kitchen and comes back, pancakes in hand, to her workbook.
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The cheerleading squad and the math team rarely compete for members at most middle schools, but at Fulton Science Academy, they are often second choices to the Chess Club.
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During the 2000 presidential election, Democratic nominee Al Gore told voters that the choice between his candidacy and that of Republican George W. Bush would likely determine who named the next three justices of the Supreme Court.
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President Bush touted his domestic agenda in the key states of Arizona and Ohio on Wednesday, the day after he delivered an optimistic assessment of the state of the union.
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Susan Kauffman can't stop smiling. Not only does she have a perfect set of teeth, but after enduring physical abuse repeatedly in her life, she also has renewed self-esteem. The group that made it possible: Give Back a Smile, sponsored by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.
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Airlines gave a big lift to the order book for the next generation Airbus A350 today, announcing contracts for 114 of the planes on the first day of the Paris Air Show.
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Britain?s Channel 4 performs a sometimes awkward balancing act as it seeks to fulfill public service obligations while satisfying the demands of the marketplace.
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A Seattle law firm filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit last week against the new Internet lawyer-rating service Avvo Inc. nine days after it went online.
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Rock, paper, scissors, tortilla! California Tortilla is challenging customers to a fierce game of rock, paper, scissors on Wednesday.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE / 1:19 p.m.
Manufacturers of generic drugs seem finally to have a golden opportunity to enter the huge biological-drug market as patents expire on more than $10 billion of brand-name pharmaceuticals.
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The main story at the world's biggest air showcase hasn't changed this year: The trans-Atlantic rivalry between Boeing Co. and Airbus again will dominate the 47th Paris Air Show, which opens today at Le Bourget, north of the French capital.
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Blockbuster Inc. will rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format in 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def offerings next month, dealing a major blow to the rival HD DVD format.
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Federal prosecutors summing up their fraud case against Conrad Black today can offer the jury two theories to convict the former press baron.
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