Chicago Tribune - Don’t automatically scratch Harvard University off your college wish list because of its steep price. The school is overhauling its financial-aid policies to attract more middle- and upper-middle-income students. Grants, for instance, will replace

Hair transplants help flowers grow
Miami Herald - The mats range in size from 25-foot sheets that can be custom-cut for row crops like tomatoes to golfball-sized cubes to tuck around the roots of potted ficus trees. Wal-Mart began selling the mats for home gardeners last spring in about 60 stores in

After Losing a Propeller, Finding the Spirit to Sail On
Washington Post - Trouble had her custom-built in Auckland, New Zealand, during the 2003 America’s Cup. Her wedge-shaped hull hovers beneath a towering mast of carbon fiber, with water ballast chambers along the gunwales to flatten her in strong winds, twin rudders

China raises 13th-century ship and its porcelain treasures from seabed
The Independent - It will be put on a huge air bed and sent to a custom-designed museum, built at a cost of 150 million yuan ( 10.3m) by the Guangdong provincial government. Initial excavations have yielded gorgeous green glazed porcelain plates, blue porcelain and

Drawing The Line Between Church And State
CBS news - When he barred Quakers from Flushing, thirty local citizens, none of them Quakers themselves, petitioned Stuyvesant, claiming the ban violated Dutch custom. “It’s just elegantly and eloquently written,” Jackson said. “They say, ‘We desire, therefore

Mexico faces own job drain
Chicago Tribune - PUEBLA, Mexico - She came home from the auto parts plant feeling faint, the burden of being six months pregnant and working an eight-hour shift on her feet with only a half-hour off for lunch. She wondered what would happen if she didn’t take care of

Rivals Learn From Boeing’s ‘Connexion’
Baltimore Sun - NEW YORK - Airlines and service providers seeking to deliver high-speed Internet services to passengers say they’ve learned from Boeing Co.’s 2006 decision to pull the plug on its ambitions to outfit its planes with a similar service. Analysts say

Artist’s works: creative and functional
MSNBC - A magnet may be as little as $2, a custom salad bowl and serving bowls more than $100. Her works on display in Town Hall range from $16 to $95. DeTullio contacted Areson about exhibiting at Town Hall after learning that the Arts commission was

Bates Custom and Collision refurbishes car for winner
Houston Chronicle - A Harris County Department of Education Head Start single mother from Baytown was awarded a refurbished car by Bates Custom & Collision as a winner of the Responsible Parenting Award 2007. Venetia Peacock, HCDE Head Start director, said Romeisha

Mencken played here
Baltimore Sun - Thirteen years ago Lou Gibson drove up from her Northern Virginia home to Plymouth Wallpaper in historic Catonsville. She liked what she saw, both in the large wallpaper outlet and along the winding, tree-lined streets off Frederick Road. It wasn’t

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