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Local Town Mortgages Students' Textbooks.
"[The South Plainfield school board] plans to sell nearly all student textbooks to a bank or financial institution, which then would lease them back to the district over a period of five years. The more than 2,500 books would remain in students' hands, and the move would bring a quick boost of about $965,000."
(via Patridiot Watch)
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze
at 2:23 PM on December 20, 2004
(35 comments)
Backpack Nation
has an interesting idea about helping out the third world.
The basic mission and strategy of Backpack Nation is to transform the world's dire political situation by sending individual travelers from the developed countries to serve as roving ambassadors to the world's less-wealthy countries.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze
at 9:21 AM on June 10, 2003
(50 comments)