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What is the difference between a Major and a Minor? How many majors and how many Minors must we take? When do we declare a Major and what does that mean? What is Double Degree? Major and minors can come from any disciplines, yes?

Etc, etc.

I’m planning to pursue education in USA, but I am confused with the undergraduate system.

Yes, a "major" can be any discipline like Math, History, Economics, Chemistry, etc. In order to successfully be eligible for graduation in the US you need to complete a certain amount of classes related to your major. The requirements vary from college to college. For example, my university (Columbia) requires two courses in Math, one in Statistics, and nine in Economics in order for me to graduate with a degree in Economics. This does not include the unrelated "liberal arts" classes (literature, arts, music) I must take in addition to my Economics major.

A "minor" represents other interests you have besides your major, but it does not require as many classes as a major. Think of it as a mini-major (a minor!).

When you "double major" you are basically taking on a second major (major is described above).

All colleges require a "major" as the minimum requirement to graduate. But you do not have to declare a minor or a double-major. Those are optional, for more ambitious students.

I plan to set up a company (maybe LLC) that will allows me to import stuffs (brooms, oil, ginger, cocoa, etc.) into the USA. I was wondering what I should do in term of:

1. What the requirements are to set up such company?
2. How to import stuffs into the USA, Rules and Regulations?
3. How to market and find buyers?
4. How to secure payments from national and international transactions?
5. Can anyone provide useful resources for all the questions above?
Thanks in advance!

Try www.FTC.gov

These countries produce goods much much cheaper than in USA.
Will it be possible to keep paying high us $ salaries to workers in USA compared to other developing countries ???

Modern economy is not only about manufacturing, but also about services and intellectual property.

When you pay $10 for a T-shirt, $2 goes to China for making the shirt, $3 goes to GAP that designed the shirt, and $5 goes to the shop for its employee salaries, rent, and transportation costs.

Food is was mostly grown in US due to trade barriers and farmer subsidies (little dirty secret of our free-market economy). On top of that, half the food we consume comes from restaurants or fast food, so it is processed in US.

Rent and housing money obviously goes to US sources.

And then come services. Cell phones, Internet, Cable, Movies and DVDs, iTunes, videogames, are all US-made.

So the bottom line is that China might be making material stuff, but it’s the intangible goods that matter, and US is way ahead in those.

What are the most scary ways the USA government is watching us?
The best answer will be the one who gives me some crazy information, not uncluding Cell phones, on-star, bla bla bla, but actually some way that they are watching us that most people do not know about.
Please include a link of where you found the info as well.

your television set…..

I heard some commercial advertising on how you can use your TV to do your banking and other internet transactions….order food, etc..

right there in that one instrument they can learn an awful lot about you….from what shows you watch to what on line searches you make to what restaurants you order fast food from, to your banking patterns etc….
I heard that all cell phones now have a built in tracking device and that coming soon gasoline tax will be replaced by a tax derived from GPS calculated mileage that you drive with your car.

We also know about the red light cameras..soon they will literally be at every street corner. They are also discussing a way to give you speeding tickets using sky cameras on drones and planes so that it has the effect of increasing the highway patrol 1000 times over.

I am planning my honeymoon during July 2nd week. What are the best beach spots around East Coast USA, in and outside USA, for honeymoon ?

My suggestion is to rent a private home on the beach. Go to a site like VRBO.com for suggestions. If you want to drive, you can head up north to Cape Cod (Mass) or even the coast of Maine. In the Mid-Atlantic area, try Ocean City (NJ or MD). In the south, maybe Myrtle Beach or the Outer Banks (NC). If the beach is not your thing, try the mountains in NH (White Mt) or VA (Shenandoah) — wonderful hiking there.

We honeymooned in Tortola, part of the British Virgin Islands. We rented a wonderful villa (from cvillas.com) and it was absolutely fabulous. BVI is a great destination because it’s a bit off-the-beaten-path, with no high rise resorts or casinos, but still lots of great restaurants and fun activities.

Even though you won’t usually have daily maid service when you rent a house (meaning you make your own bed), having complete privacy is such a plus on your honeymoon. It’s so perfect to have an entire home to yourself. We never cooked, but we did stop by a grocery store and stocked up on drinks and snacks. I loved haiving the house all to ourselves (we even had a pool overlooked by no neighbors), and it was great not to see other honeymooners every time we turned around.

We’ve rented houses in Tortola (twice), Cape Cod (Mass), Ocean City (NJ), Cape May (NJ), Ocean City (MD), Estes Park (CO), and Orlando (FL). We’ve had nothing but good luck.

Which USA colleges or universities specialize in or are known to be particularly strong in teaching "logistics" as a major?

If you were to rank the top three, which would they be?

What degree do you wish to pursue? Do you have a good grade point average? Have you taken standardized tests? If so, how did you do? Do you have job experience? With so many questions, it’s difficult to tell you which schools are good places for you to study logistics.

At the graduate level (Master’s) the best universities for scm/logistics are MIT, Michigan State, and Arizona State.

At the undergraduate level it’s also those three universities, just in a different order: Michigan State, Arizona State, MIT.

At MIT you might experience better facilities and technology facilities/equipment.

At MSU you are exposed to a very industrious area (a few hours away from Detroit, where many auto manufacturers are located at)

At ASU you get a very special education because you are taught supply chain management with a holistic approach.

All of them are great schools, the thing is to know whether or not you have their requirements.

Most expensive: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Least expensive: Arizona State University

Someone I know was landed with a $5000 bill for medical treatment in the usa. They paid $1000 before leaving the country and they haven’t paid the rest and they don’t have the inclination to pay the rest. They are planning to go back to usa but i wondered what would happen once they set foot there. I don’t want this person to get into trouble but I do want them to realise how serious this is. Can someone give me an reply?

Your friend isn’t inclined to pay the rest? What a winner! Just the sort of person we want to come to the US!

One repercussion is that if the person requires a visa, and the debt is known to the consular officer, the visa won’t be issued at least until the debt is repaid,or possibly never; and if your friend is benefiting from the Visa Waiver Program, those privileges can be revoked – such a person is considered a public charge. The reasoning is sound – hospital bills left unpaid by foreign nationals are not just magically "written off" – the money comes from somewhere – either government funding, at taxpayer expense, or in the form of increased medical costs. That is why travelers are expected to have insurance coverage when in the US.

USA is a cunning monster, it accomplishes sinister objectives thru artificially benign means. u never know what they’re upto. they keep supporting pakistan even after all the evidence against it. saudi arabia and UAE are best friends of USA. naive Indians must be alert to the beast in puppy’s clothing.

Take responsibility for yourself. The USA isn’t the cause of your problems.

In several areas of technology and innovation, the USA and Japan (and to some extent, Germany and Sweden too) are far ahead than the rest of the world. And we never hear about any technological invention come out of the UK or Australia or Canada or France or China.

How come USA and Japan are far more technologically advanced than the other developed nations in the world?

Guess who invented the chip on your credit card? And has been using that technology for twenty years already?
Where is your high speed train?
Where is your vertical take off plane?

1983 Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo isolate HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
1990 Tim Berners-Lee, a consultant at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, along with his colleague Robert Cailliau author software that gave birth of the World Wide Web
1996 ‘Dolly’ the sheep is born in Scotland. She was produced by cloning a single mammary cell
1975 Cesar Milstein Argentine-born British biochemist and co-workers develop monoclonal antibodies, the ‘magic bullets’ that can seek out specific antigens and therefore disease-causing organisms…

for example, making sure that anyone who is old and cant work who gets ill gets all the treatment they need regardless of their finances, and all their medicine they need etc..

on a scale of top priority, reasonable priority, average priority, low priority….

where would you place the USA?

In the EU15, about 19% of the elderly population is considered "at risk" of poverty. The poverty threshold is 60% of median income in the EU.

In the US, the median income of the elderly was 14,400 USD per year, while median income for the entire population was over 40,000. Applying the EU definition, that means that well over 50% of the elderly in the US are "at risk of poverty". From the distributions in the paper cited below (from census data), 60% of the US elderly had an income below 18,000 USD. So one can estimate that between 60 and 80% of the elderly in the US would be deemed "at risk" in the EU.

Needless to say, the US does not use the same definitions of poverty. The poverty threshold is very low, which means that even above the poverty threshold people live in significantly substandard conditions in terms of housing, food security and access to health and education. Recently there has been some work done on changing the assessment of poverty by introducing a spectrum of economic wellbeing. This adds the "economically vulnerable" population. Over 40% of the elderly fall in the economically in crisis or economically vulnerable categories.