The biggest name schools aren't so expensive. The Ivies, and I assume Stanford, won't leave you with more than ~$20k of debt, and places like Yale and Princeton replaced loans with grants a few years back, leaving you with 0 debt. If you made the mistake of having a college fund, though, the amount they expect you to pay will magically increase by exactly the size of that fund.
True. At Stanford, children from families making less than $100k pay Zero tuition. Children from families that make less than $250k receive academic aid so that they end up paying less than if they had gone to a state school unassisted. I believe Harvard is going to start doing something similar.
Carbon circulates as both C12 and C13 as naturally produced isotopes. Simply due to the lighter mass allowing it to explore a larger diffusion volume per unit time, biological processes are slightly more likely to incorporate a C12 into a reaction than a C13 relative to their natural abundance. This leads to biological material being slightly C12 rich compared to the environmental C12/C13 ratio at the time the carbon was "fixed". Clever use of these isotope ratios is allowing scientists to investigate lots of interesting relationships both in paleontology and current research on photosynthesis.
A google scholar search for carbon isotope ratios will explain it better than I can.
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The biggest name schools aren't so expensive. The Ivies, and I assume Stanford, won't leave you with more than ~$20k of debt, and places like Yale and Princeton replaced loans with grants a few years back, leaving you with 0 debt. If you made the mistake of having a college fund, though, the amount they expect you to pay will magically increase by exactly the size of that fund.
True. At Stanford, children from families making less than $100k pay Zero tuition. Children from families that make less than $250k receive academic aid so that they end up paying less than if they had gone to a state school unassisted. I believe Harvard is going to start doing something similar.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/february8/tuition-financial-aid-020910.html
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Carbon circulates as both C12 and C13 as naturally produced isotopes. Simply due to the lighter mass allowing it to explore a larger diffusion volume per unit time, biological processes are slightly more likely to incorporate a C12 into a reaction than a C13 relative to their natural abundance. This leads to biological material being slightly C12 rich compared to the environmental C12/C13 ratio at the time the carbon was "fixed". Clever use of these isotope ratios is allowing scientists to investigate lots of interesting relationships both in paleontology and current research on photosynthesis. A google scholar search for carbon isotope ratios will explain it better than I can.
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