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Need a college loan? Ask your friends online.

Websites are cropping up for peer lending, and at other sites, students can raise donations for college.
College students: Don't limit dreams with debt

Huge school loans can hinder future growth. Think about potential income before signing the dotted line.
Student-loan legislation moves forward

The bill, designed to encourage lenders to keep offering federal loans to students, won bipartisan support in Congress.
Amid loan worries, a silver lining for students

Almost half of college students fail to collect all of the federal loans – fixed at 6.8 percent – that they are eligible to receive.

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Mae Azango has gone undercover to report on female circumcision, a rite of the Sande society in Liberia that is performed on young girls.

Mae Azango exposed a secret ritual in Liberia, putting her life in danger

When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.