By Mar Celo on Dec 17, 2007 in US News | 0 Comments
The University of Pennsylvania along with Harvard and other elite private colleges announced their loan-free financial aid packages aimed at middle- and upper-middle-class students earlier today.
All financially eligible undergraduates will receive grants instead of loans beginning in fall 2009.
Penn President Amy Gutmann said:
By Mar Celo on Dec 15, 2007 in US News | 0 Comments
A second big winter storm has struck this week in the Midwest , more than a foot of snow has fallen in some states.Thousands of people are left with no electricity after the first storm slammed Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri earlier in the week where 38 people died in traffic accidents.Associated Press reports:
By Mar Celo on Dec 14, 2007 in US News | 0 Comments
A family in Kansas received a Christmas card today that was sent to them 93 years ago.
The card that features a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma.Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said:
It’s a mystery where [...]
By Mar Celo on Dec 13, 2007 in US News | 0 Comments
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig held a press conference today and unveiled the Mitchell Report on steroids.The 3000 page report exposed 80 baseball players including Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens as performance-enhancing drug users.Selig said:
By Mar Celo on Dec 12, 2007 in South Korea News | 0 Comments
A team of scientists led by Kong Il-keun have managed to clone three cats that glow in the dark.Kong Il-keun, and other cloning experts at the Gyeongsang National University produced the cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases.But one of the side-effect is the [...]
