Students see little chance of draft
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Many college students see the latest flirtation with a military draft more as political game-playing than a serious threat.
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Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.
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Apart from a few marquee matchups, college basketball has yet to command prime attention during the first two months of the season, and for schools in lesser leagues, the best opportunity to make a national impression is winding down.
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Teams with aspirations of winning a national championship can't afford to wilt in the final minutes of a close game.
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The school doesn&#39;t get the top recruits, doesn&#39;t get the major bowl games it believes is its birthright, and doesn&#39;t get the fact that the football program is just not a major power anymore.
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The empty nest isnât what many parents expected it would be when their children left for college. Many students seem to be home almost as much as theyâre away.
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By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 12--It seems like an average school setting: teenagers wearing jeans and T-shirts, sitting at tables, writing vigorously on college-ruled paper and looking up every now and then to chat with each other.
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Many military experts believe that reviving some sort of military draft is extremely unlikely, even impossible -- but not all of them.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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About 80,000 to 90,000 low-income students will not be qualified to receive Pell Grant scholarships under new calculation formula.
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Critical to the war effort in Iraq, the National Guard and Army Reserve are drawing fewer enlistees. Will the troop shortage worsen?
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Rumors of reinstating the military draft, which have flourished for months in panicky e-mails, online chat rooms, college dorms and student newspapers, suddenly dominated  the House floor yesterday in one of the strangest parliamentary maneuvers in memory. With even its sponsor voting against it, a bill to require young adults to perform military or civil service failed, 402 to 2.
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Only about 10 percent of people who are suitable candidates for two drugs received one of them last year.
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Half of Army recruits have the literacy or numeracy skills of children leaving primary school.
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In the wake of the 2006 N.C.A.A. Tournament, which featured George Masonâs run to the Final Four, the Selection Committee appeared to shy away from smaller conference teams this year.
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A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don&#39;t get it for a simple reason - they don&#39;t apply.
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There are big variations in how many children from different neighbourhoods go to university.