Q: Recently, Mattie Billingsley won $7 million in the $7 Million Jackpot scratch-off game. Can there be more than one winner? Will the Georgia Lottery Corp. continue to sell these scratch-off games or will they be retired?
—Carla M. Roy, Roswell
A: The $7 Million Jackpot is a Georgia Lottery instant game with cash prizes up to $7 million. One of the game's two $7 million top prizes had been claimed by Feb. 23, Georgia Lottery Corp. officials told Q&A on the News in an email. Players also can enter non-winning game tickets into an extra chance drawing at www.galottery.com for another opportunity to win $7 million, officials said. The Georgia Lottery Corp. picks up instant games from retailer locations when all top prizes have been claimed.
Q: How many foreign students are enrolled in the universities and colleges? Who pays their tuition?
—Lorraine Vinson, Rome
A: There were a record 723,277 international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities during the 2010-11 academic year, according to the Open Doors report, published annually by the Institute of International Education and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It was the fifth consecutive year that the number of international students in the U.S. had increased and represented a 4.7 percent increase from the previous year. China sent 157,558 students to the U.S. in 2010-11, the most of any foreign country and a 23 percent increase from the previous year. The report stated that 63 percent of the international students receive money from personal and family sources, and almost 70 percent of their funding comes from sources outside the U.S.
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