| Parents hit by university degree debt
And that doesn't take into account extra costs such as textbooks and transport. Australian Medical Students' Association president Michael Bonning said he personally knew of parents who were mortgaging their homes for their children's education. Skyrocketing degree prices have angered student unions, which are calling for a revision of all fees, including costs at private institutions such as Bond University. Even medical students who utilise the Higher Education Contribution Scheme at UQ will have to find more than $55,000 if they do a Bachelor of Science, Agriculture, Economics or Engineering first. UQ law students going on to medicine will have to pay back about $68,000 under HECS. Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard said the number of degrees costing more than $100,000 would diminish next year, when the Government abolished full-fee paying domestic undergraduate and bachelor places in public universities.
New Mexico joins lawsuit against EPA
New Mexico has joined 14 states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency because the agency refused to grant a waiver to California for the Clean Car program. California filed the lawsuit on Jan. 2 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The New Mexico Attorney General's office is representing the state in the lawsuit. New Mexico became the 13th state, and the first Intermountain state, to adopt the Clean Car program last month. The program, which took effect Jan. 1, requires car manufacturers to sell and lease vehicles that meet the Clean Car standards beginning with model year 2011. The program only applies to new vehicles and will not affect new or used cars sold before that model year. The program requires reductions in tailpipe emissions to reduce air pollution, overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles sold in the state and sales of some zero emission vehicles in the state.
WAITING FOR GANDHI
His democracy is merely a collection of empty slogans for domestic and international consumption. In Bushs eyes, the problem is resistance, not occupation, so the only way for the Palestinians to save themselves from Sharons massacres is to elect his supporters in the name of democracy. .
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