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• Video on skin aging inspires teen sunscreen use
• Finally, a Law That Would Protect People From Student Loan Hell
• With Olympian pride, Russia asks teachers to ease up on homework
• Malloy to discuss funding plan for Conn. colleges
• Donors shower colleges with nearly $34 billion in 2013, a record
• Russian teachers told to cut back homework for Olympics

Video on skin aging inspires teen sunscreen use Posted: 12 Feb 2014 12:46 PM PST By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers felt more compelled to apply sunscreen if they saw in a video that it could protect their skin from premature aging than if they saw that it could protect against cancer, a new study shows. "Vanity is more of a driving force to use sunscreen, as opposed to the fear factor of developing skin cancer," the study's lead author, William Tuong, told Reuters Health. In his study, high school students applied sunblock three times as often if they watched a video showing how it could prevent their skin from wrinkling than if they watched a video showing how sun exposure causes melanoma. Fifty Sacramento 11th-grade students participated in the study and saw one of two educational videos urging them to lather on sunscreen.

Finally, a Law That Would Protect People From Student Loan Hell Posted: 12 Feb 2014 12:29 PM PST Many well-intentioned graduates can't afford to pay off their student loans because of the sour economy. Unlike other forms of debt, in the case of student loans, basic consumer rights like bankruptcy protection don't apply to those who default. Instead, everyone from recent college graduates to the older underemployed who can't afford to pay is subject to garnished wages and other income in the name of paying for higher education with an increasingly high price tag. That's where the bill proposed by Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., the Student Borrowers Bill of Rights Act, H.R. 3892, comes in as a possible solution.

With Olympian pride, Russia asks teachers to ease up on homework Posted: 12 Feb 2014 09:21 AM PST The pro-Kremlin United Russia party appealed to teachers Wednesday to reduce school hours and slash homework assignments for the duration of the Olympics so that children would have more time to watch TV and root for the national team. Last week Russia's Defense Ministry ordered that military personnel be given four free hours a day so that they could watch as well. In Russia, where education is taken very seriously and Saturday is a school day for kids from junior high on, teachers are seldom willing to loosen the screws. The Sochi Olympics, despite being the butt of much criticism in the run-up, have proven to be a runaway success since the gala opening ceremony last Friday.

Malloy to discuss funding plan for Conn. colleges Posted: 12 Feb 2014 07:53 AM PST Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is discussing his proposal to spend more than $134 million on the newly consolidated Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system. The money is part of a multi-year ...

Donors shower colleges with nearly $34 billion in 2013, a record Posted: 12 Feb 2014 06:23 AM PST Charitable donations to colleges and universities climbed 9 percent in 2013 to hit an all-time high of nearly $34 billion, a new report says, another sign that the economy is on the rebound. This is good news for institutions of higher education of all sizes, says Ann Kaplan, director of the Council for Aid to Education's annual Voluntary Support of Education survey. While the usual suspects – Ivy League schools – topped the list of major recipients, many of the schools that saw the highest percentage increase in donations from 2012 to 2013 are smaller community colleges, she says. The CAE findings are consistent with several other measures of general philanthropy and of university giving.

Russian teachers told to cut back homework for Olympics Posted: 11 Feb 2014 04:17 PM PST President Vladimir Putin's ruling party on Wednesday urged Russian school teachers to cut back on homework assignments so children could spend more time watching the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. The feel-good proposal came on the heels of the Russian army's decision to give some troops an extra four hours off per day to watch television so that they can root for the athletes.

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