Another, "no real information" article.  The big question in making this decision is, is it inheritable.  If not, definitely lump sum, if so, well maybe.

Absolutely changes how I view Columbia!  Race should not be a criteria for ANY scholarship ANYWHERE!  All racially oriented university policies should be done away with.

As I understand it the country has a vested interest in more people being educated in teaching, engineering, physics, medicine, and chemistry.  So the government should prioritize (even limit) student loans to those students, and for only as long as they maintain a reasonable GPA.  I'm not qualified to set that reasona...more

Underwater cities, are you kidding?  Remember Holland would be under water already if the Dutch hadn't done something about it.  Dikes?  Windmills?  If the people who are effected let it happen, so be it.  Denver and Nepal will still be habitable.

I'd need more data.  On what is he basing this prediction?  Our pollution?  Asteroids?  what?  In most cases he is to be listened to, but here???

The major problem is that most of  today's dumbed down high school grads can't cut it in an engineering curriculum.

Many will call this negative, I call it realistic.  It's the law of supply and demand in action.  When there are more and more of anything (like college grads) they will be worth less and less.  College is not for everyone.  Trade school, or job specific training, should be pursued by more young people.  Also if any gr...more

There are two ways to look at it.  One is that the odds are astronomical against you and therefore it is a waste of money to buy a ticket.  The other is that the person who won had no greater odds to win than you do.  Tell that  person in NJ that the ticket purchase was a waste of money!

This is too drastic, I feel.  There are devices which simply blank the phone.  One of these could be incorporated into a car where it would allow the phone to be used only when the car is in park, or not in motion.