| 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.
Alfred Wegener, early in the twentieth century, was the first, leading, scientific proponent of continental drift. He marshaled geometric, paleontological, paleoclimatic, and geological evidence to support continental drift; but his ideas were largely rejected in England and the United States.