a home in the District near their job or close to mass-transit stations.



From the press advisory:

While the intent is good, it's backwards. FWIW, this kind of program should be required of universities in the city as part of the approval of university campus plans, without DC having to give these institutions money to do so.



Mercer University (Macon) and University of Pennsylvania, among other institutions, have extensive programs concerning revitalization of neighborhoods around their campuses, where they are making the investment in the surrounding communities, sometimes with some grant assistance, but not with municipal funds.





More than 1,000 University and Health System employees have taken advantage of the programs since 1965, when Penn first began offering West Philadelphia home buying incentives.



Toyin Adegbite-Moore, director of Penn Home Ownership Services, says theThe Bank of Canada will begin churning out a series of redesigned banknotes later this year that will be made of a plastic polymer material.

Canadians will literally feel the change first in the $100 bill. The reissued high denomination notes will start appearing in November.

Lower denomination bills will be similarly reworked over the following two years, with the new $50 bill set to appear in March 2012.

The polymer material features a smooth durable film developed specifically for banknotes. The technology is already being used in several countries.

The Bank of Canada has periodically redesigned the country's paper money to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters. The incidence of funny money rose dramatically in the period from 1992 to 2004 — when about 500 phoney bills turned up in every