continued: The key was that it did not let just any one in you had to earn it and you had to work hard to stay in it. It was considered a top level engineering school along with top level departments in all the sciences. Was there a benefit to society - yes there was, can we do the same now? Maybe but it most likely would be called elitist and racist because it would not necessarily be diverse enough now.

When I went to College in New York City the City University was a "Free" college. It started as the Free Academy and turned into the City College which was the first college in the City University. City College was called the Harvard on the Hudson and basically founded on the idea that there was a tremendous potential in the poor of NYC that could be developed to the benefit of society. It was free but you needed to qualify to get in and that was not easy. Many of the students from City college went on to obtain PhD's in Ivy Leagues and other top level colleges. Many other became leaders in industry and other fields. Yes the City subsidized it but again it was thought to be a long term benefit to the city and society as a whole.

sorry anyone suggesting a fundamental transformation should be stayed away from. It usually involves them telling you what to do.

I have an e-reader and love it for the ability to have a ton of books available to read at any moment, but I have an extensive library of books that I want to own and share. Something which you CAN NOT do readily with an e-book. There are also lots of old books that are not available in e-book format so you have to have a physical book.

I have a question, given this: Remember Lori Drew, the Missouri woman who was widely vilified in 2007 after she played a MySpace prank on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide? Although Missouri prosecutors concluded that Drew had broken no laws, Thomas O'Brien, then the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, took it upon himself to prosecute her for violating the CFAA by disregarding MySpace's terms of service. How does the LA prosecutor have jurisdiction? Just because MYSpace is headquartered in LA? Wouldn't have to be the feds that made the charge not a local guy?

You are probably right but if you take the state's money you have to toe the state's line. So the Christian group basically should not take the money. It is similar to us Home Schoolers. We don't take the state's money and they don't have the opening to rule us.

I have a separate comment about my daughter and the range but yes we are having a lot of young girls come down to the small bore jr rifle program and they end up trying and love it. Biggest smiles around. And honestly the girls are better students at it in that they often are more patient and willing to listen. And I am talking about girls as young as 8 yro

I took my daughter to the range about 3 years ago and she is now going for her small bore distinguished Expert rating, never having fired anything before and taking about 15 months off. She is also training to be an instructor and actively instructs kids especially the young girls.

numbers are important in determining who is the majority party but really Snowe voted for democratic positions more than Republican so it is 6 of half a dozen of the other concerning her leaving

personally I would just recycle the used newspaper just like they want, shredded and all