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• Parents, ACLU sue NJ city over Facebook records (AP)
• 70 Percent of College Students Have Forgone Textbooks Because of Price (The Atlantic Wire)
• Ohio jury hung on verdict in girl's '67 killing (AP)
• Morris Brown pays off debt to US government (AP)
• School-lunch vote tests SKoreans on welfare state (AP)

Parents, ACLU sue NJ city over Facebook records (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:38 PM PDT AP - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state's biggest city for refusing to release records related to a $100 million gift pledged to its schools by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

70 Percent of College Students Have Forgone Textbooks Because of Price (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Last week we reported that college tuition has increased at a faster rate than the prices of many other broad categories of goods and services Americans consume, including housing, healthcare, and energy. There are, of course, many other costs to attending college not in a school's sticker price--not the least of which is the cost of textbooks. Those, it turns out, ain't so cheap either.

Ohio jury hung on verdict in girl's '67 killing (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 11:11 AM PDT AP - Jurors deadlocked Tuesday on a lone murder charge against a man accused of snatching a teen on her way home from school in 1967 and holding her captive in his basement before killing her and dumping her body in Michigan.

Morris Brown pays off debt to US government (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:24 AM PDT AP - Morris Brown College has settled a nearly $10 million debt for pennies on the dollar with the U.S. Education Department.

School-lunch vote tests SKoreans on welfare state (AP) Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:03 AM PDT AP - Seoul's mayor is asking voters to reject free lunches for all elementary and middle school students in a referendum Wednesday that has become a test of how far a resurgent South Korea should go in developing a welfare state.

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