AP article: Other things Iraq funding can pay for

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_It could send 748,495 people, nearly everyone in Jacksonville, Fla., to Harvard University for four years. Based on Harvard's 2004-05 school year costing $39,880 for tuition, fees, room and board, multiplied by four.

_Or send 2,806,506 people - almost all the residents of Chicago - to the average-priced public university for four years, based on The College Board calculation that the average public college and university costs $10,636 per year, multiplied by four.

_Or buy a median U.S. home - median price $174,100, according to National Association of Realtors - for 685,813 people, slightly more than all the residents of Austin, Texas.

_If the $119.4 billion were divided evenly among Iraq's estimated 25 million residents, each would get $4,776. That would be eight times the country's $600 per capita income, an estimate an official of the United Nations Development Program made last November.


More: http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040601/D82UCOPO1.html

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953