With bloated tuition costs and questionable academic standards, it's time we challenge the conventional wisdom that college is the only path to advanced education and economic success.

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Of late, lesser-known yet winning entrepreneurs such as Zhu at WebEx and Feng Deng at NetScreen , which was acquired earlier this year by Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ), have advanced down the same path.

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The left-back, under no pressure, passed the ball across his own goal and straight into the path of Hleb, who advanced into the area and slotted the ball home via the legs of Kingson.

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Its lack of flexibility may frustrate advanced users, but will clear a safe path for casual users.

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Other features include full data path protection, embedded AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) engines for data security, and other resource optimization features.

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But he cautioned that the path would get tougher as the legislative process advanced, and said he would release his own proposal, already drafted, if the process became bogged down in Congress.

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The guidance is accurate, it offers pinpoint GPS precision -- so good that it'll tell me exactly when to exit a roundabout -- it alerts me when I'm speeding and the advanced lane guidance is perfect for keeping me on the right path.

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Wigan, which hadn't even advanced as far as the sixth round of the competition since 1987, didn't have the hardest path to the final.

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