| AP. The cost of a college degree in the United States has increased 12 fold over the past 30 years, far outpacing the price inflation of consumer goods, medical expenses and food.According to Bloomberg, college tuition and fees have increased 1,120 percent since records began in 1978. AP. The cost of a college degree in the United States has increased 12 fold over the past 30 years, far outpacing the price inflation of consumer goods, medical expenses and food.
It was a century ago this spring that a little-known German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had once been massed together in a single supercontinent and then gradually drifted apart. He was, of course, right.
Lived 1880 â 1930. Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift â the idea that Earthâs continents move. Despite publishing a large body of compelling fossil and rock evidence for his theory between 1912 and 1929, it was rejected by most other scientists.lfred Wegenerâs Scientific Legacy. Today, we recognize that continental drift theory is correct. It was only in the 1960s, when the theory of plate tectonics was recognized as correct, that geologists finally accepted that Wegenerâs continental drift theory and the concept of Pangaea were also correct.