1) EducationUSA has been running a series of online sessions about researching your choices for studying in the U.S. They’ve got them all archived in a handy online player on their website:
http://www.educationusa.info/edusa_connects/

2) If you’re a smoker, your college options just dwindled.  City University of New York, a network of 23 colleges, has banned smoking on campus:
http://www.good.is/post/that-cigarette-s-banned-on-campus/

They join over 450 other U.S. schools (as listed by the American Non-Smokers’ Rights Foundation):
http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/smokefreecollegesuniversities.pdf (PDF)

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